Re: Re: DB_Table: Summary and Pre-Call

Hi, Daniel,

But hey, I'm running the DBMS's, so some permissions settings might be more favorable to me.

Exactly -- you have complete control over the target system (which is nice when you can get it :-). Many developers do not, especially those developers writing for wide distribution.

In the one application I need 100% portability,

Here's where I'm coming from: when I write code, I *expect* to share it with others. Maybe it's smart, maybe it's dumb, but my default stance is that my code will end up in other hands on other systems, and I write it with that in mind (extensive inline comments, code standards, naming conventions, portable SQL, etc). In a sense, then, *all* of my applications require 100% portability. Does that limit me? Yes, in some ways. Does it have benefits of its own? Also yes. :-) I prefer that tradeoff; it might not be preferred by others. -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty. http://phpsavant.com/