[Gambas-user] Problems in the database component design

[Laurent Carlier]

Perhaps adding a property DB.CaseSensitive ?

2007/8/18, Rob <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...>:
>
> On Saturday 18 August 2007, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > So I think I will switch to a case sensitive design. It will make
> > things harder for old VB newbies, but a cleaner design is better.
>
> Case sensitive meaning keywords will have to be upper case?  I would
> actually have to fork gb.db for my clients if you did that.
>
> If you're talking about enforcing case sensitivity in field names, it
> would still cause problems in a lot of existing code written by ex-VB
> users, but maybe I'd just never update those projects to gambas2.  I
> don't think that's what you're talking about, though, since you
> mention problems with creating tables.
>
> Any way you look at it, I think that imposing case sensitivity on a
> case-insensitive language like SQL would be a design flaw.  If you do
> feel you have to implement this, could you make a new property called
> something like "passthru" so we can send our unmodified queries
> through to MySQL or whatever the target database engine is?
>
> Rob
>
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