I am interested in the latter. I am trying to show a comparison
between coding iBatis
dynamic SQL and coding an equivalent function in a stored proc. I am
more interested in functional equivalence than i am in syntactical
equivalence. I would have preformed this myself. But, i wanted a
chance to get my bias towards iBatis out of the way and see what
others have found for dealing with mildly complex situations like the
one i presented. If you can get it to me sooner that would be better.
I am running on a short deadline to complete this chapter and my hope
was to have it in sometime late tonight. But, I'll take what i can get
and if you are willing... i'll have to wait.
If anyone else would like to make a contribution it would be a great
addition to the wiki. I think this kind of information will help us to
understand when and why to use iBatis.
Thanks much,
Brandon
On 5/2/05, Jeff Butler <dhscn06@cstone.dhs.state.il.us> wrote:
> I'll bite...
>
> What are you trying to show in this comparison?
>
> If you are trying to show that iBatis is better than stored procs for
> composing dynamic SQL, then the comparison, to me, is pretty
> uninteresting. IMHO iBatis (or almost any other client), is better than
> trying to compose dynamic SQL in a stored procedure. To me, composing
> dynamic SQL in a stored procedure is a waste of time. You get few of
> the benefits of a stored proc, and a lot more headache. Security and
> some kind of schema hiding are the only possible benefits I can think
> of. Performance and complexity would likely be worse.
>
> If, however, you are trying to show a comparison between coding iBatis
> dynamic SQL and coding an equivalent function in a stored proc, that
> would be interesting to me. In that case, I would not write a stored
> proc that composed dynamic sql. For example, rather than using the
> "categoryId IN" syntax , I might insert the values into a temp table and
> join the table. Stored procs also have some limitations in your example
> because many (ALL??) databases do not support variable argument lists
> for stored procs. You might have to resort to some kind of delimited
> string to pass in indeterminate arguments, and then parse the string in
> the proc. The benefits of writing the proc this way would be that the
> SQL could be prepared when the proc is created and the perfomance could
> improve substantially - most of the reason to write a proc in the first
> place.
>
> So this kind of comparison MIGHT show:
>
> - iBatis, using dynamic SQL, has a more understandable syntax
> - the stored proc is more complex to code, and somewhat more difficult
> to call (because of the delimited string)
> - the stored proc has better performance and is more secure
>
> This would have to be a "your milage may vary" type of thing.
>
> If you're interested in the second kind of comparison, I could mock up
> a DB2 example for you. Probably not until tomorrow.
>
> Jeff Butler
>
> >>> brandon.goodin@gmail.com 5/2/2005 4:55:50 AM >>>
> Hey all,
>
> I am putting together a comparison of using iBatis dynamic SQL versus
> dynamic SQL in a stored procedure. I want to solicit some assistance
> on this. If you are willing i would like for you to write a stored
> procedure that can accomplish the following requirements.
>
> The stored procedure must use the following SQL statement:
>
> SELECT
> categoryId,
> title,
> description,
> sequence
> FROM Category
> WHERE
> categoryId IN (?,?,?,?,...) AND
> name LIKE ('?%')
>
> - The 'categoryId IN' should be completely omitted/ignored if no
> values are passed in for it and the 'AND' should be removed.
> - The 'categoryId IN' statement should be able to accommodate a
> dynamic number of ids.
> - The 'name LIKE' statement should be ignored if no LIKE value is
> passed in and the 'AND' should be removed..
> - The value of the 'name LIKE' should be an alpha character that has
> the '%' wildcard appended to it inside the stored procedure.
>
> Please provide straight JDBC code that calls the stored procedure.
>
> I wanted to get a few examples from various databases if possible.
> But, one will do as much as several. Whoever delivers the best usable
> example will receive credit for it in the an upcoming iBatis book.
>
> I hope a few of you are up for the challenge!
> Brandon
>
> P.S. I need this today :)
>
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