> the responsibility for generating and updating them as the underlying data changes can be handed over to the database management system
And now we shift ever more slightly back towards logic in the DB. I for one am thrilled; there’s no reason other than unfamiliarity to not let RDBMS perform functions it’s designed to do. As long as these offloads are documented in code, embrace not needing to handle it in your app.
And now we shift ever more slightly back towards logic in the DB. I for one am thrilled; there’s no reason other than unfamiliarity to not let RDBMS perform functions it’s designed to do. As long as these offloads are documented in code, embrace not needing to handle it in your app.