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  • wvenable@lemmy.catoProgramming@programming.devSQL Stored Procedures
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    1 year ago

    If anything, it separates code from the data more as far as I can tell, so maybe I’m missing something?

    Stored procedures are code – so you’re putting code in the database. How do you test that code? How do you source control that code? How do you roll back that code to the previous version or compare it to a previous version? How to know the history of that code? If that procedure is designed to work in together with application changes, how to test and deploy those together? This is all not impossible but it’s certainly more difficult and creates more potential failure points.

    Also, if something is somewhat data driven and there’s a bug, you simply alter a procedure versus doing a build and deploy of the entire application.

    That’s the problem. You write like that like it’s an advantage but you’re literally editing code live in production.

    The performance advantages of stored procedures are unsupported. Most database engines do not treat stored procedures any differently than regular queries. And it’s not that stored procedures aren’t optimized, it’s that queries are equally optimized.

    Fortune 250 on down has used stored procedures with applications and it seems extremely clean and performance-oriented.

    A lot of these companies also still use COBOL on mainframes (something I’ve actually worked on and don’t recommend either). Stored procedures made a lot more sense historically when SQL might actually have more expressive power than your programming language and when database interfaces were much complicated and non-standard.




  • In my family, everyone else has an iPhone and I have Samsung S23. So I can maybe give both perspectives. If you just want a phone to be a phone, it’s hard to go wrong with an iPhone. It’s always the best default choice. That being said, I personally can’t go back to an iPhone. Lots of people recommend Google devices because of the “stock” Android experience but I greatly prefer the interface, integration, and customization of Samsung devices.

    Anyway, in no particular order why I like Android/Samsung:

    1. The ability to just copy movie and TV shows files onto the device and play them with VLC. This is a must for me for travel. iOS is still a pain in the ass for this.
    2. In screen finger-print reader and face unlock (both are useful)
    3. Ability to cast a Dex desktop to my TV with one click for showing off content
    4. Customized gesture navigation (swipe up middle - home, swipe up right - back, swipe up left - apps) – full screen is available no button bar
    5. THE BACK BUTTON – every time I use an iPhone I hate hate hate the lack of a back button
    6. Browsers with ad block
    7. Customized YouTube with ad blocking (revanced)
    8. Customized notification icon bar – hide icons that are always on (bluetooth, etc), battery percentage no icon.
    9. Separate profile for Work and Personal – my employer has control only of the work profile and can’t remote wipe my entire phone.
    10. Custom home screen apps (I use Nova 7)
    11. USB-C – one single charger for all my devices (phone, laptop, tablet, buds, etc).
    12. Ability to wirelessly charge my watch and my ear buds using the back of the phone (this is great for travel)
    13. Open source console emulators

    I can probably think of more but that’s a good start.







  • Honestly I think the idea of hundreds of tiny instances of Mastodon or Lemmy is not the way the fediverse should work. It probably won’t work that way because it doesn’t scale well. However, having a half-dozen or so large instances would give you almost the entire benefit without as many of the issues. Would Reddit be having a meltdown right now if there was even just one other instance of Reddit everyone could move to?

    I think federation and centralization is the key to success.





  • People forget that there wasn’t even a mass exodus from Digg. Although we can pinpoint the exact day that Digg killed itself, it actually took a long time for everyone to eventually leave. People hedged their bets between platforms – just as many people are doing now between Reddit and all the new alternatives.

    This week on Lemmy actually feels very different from last week. There’s some sort of critical mass that has been hit even if it’s just some minuscule tiny fraction of the total traffic of Reddit.



  • The problem is the government has been protecting/supporting one group for a long time to the point that everything is now “too big to fail”. Government continue to create investment materials that can’t fail – and anything that can’t fail will create a bubble and destroy everything else. That investment in Canada was housing. Now it’s like over half our GDP is housing investment. And why invest in anything else? Nothing else is as risk free.

    I feel like the collapse is never going to come.



  • The destruction of the web… As if the web was social medias

    Social media is just as part of the web as anything. Trying to carve out some exception for Facebook because you don’t like them is not a logical argument. What about Wikipedia? Reddit? Lemmy? Digg? Google?

    Go check how much time people spend on each item on their feed on Facebook and how much time they spend on average on a web page vs just on Facebook every day and tell me again how Facebook is bringing traffic to traditional media!

    Please provide the receipts, then.

    If people have to pay for links, how is that going to provide more traffic to traditional media? Isn’t that the whole point of links… to provide traffic.

    Facebook thinks people will spend just as much time on Facebook without news links. This whole law is pointless. It’s trying to create a market for “links” that doesn’t exist. Again, if media companies don’t want to provide summaries and images to Facebook they can do that. Instead, all the major news papers in Canada put tags specifically for Facebook to use with their content. They want those links. So makes it valuable to them, not the other way around.

    If all you just want to take money from Facebook and give it Canadian media companies, why not just make a law that does that.