Eric Redmond > Quotes

“There’s an old saying in the relational database world: on a long enough timeline, all fields become optional.”
― Eric Redmond

“Stored procedures can offer huge performance advantages for huge architectural costs. You may avoid streaming thousands of rows to a client application, but you have also bound your application code to this database. The decision to use stored procedures should not be arrived at lightly.”
― Eric Redmond, Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement