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<node id="505090" title="Re^4: A brief survey of the DBI usability layer modules on the CPAN" created="2005-11-02 15:38:20" updated="2005-11-02 10:38:20">
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Aristotle</author>
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&lt;p&gt;I think that is better done with an approach such as [cpan://SQL::Abstract]&amp;#8217;s. (Indeed, I&amp;#8217;d be using it even now, if I hadn&amp;#8217;t run into the previously mentioned limitations.) An object-relational mapper, as far as I can tell, will always suffer from trying to express queries with complex dependencies using an ill-suited model.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="right" class="pmsig pmsig-114691"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Makeshifts last the longest.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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