A Decision Framework (and When to Stop Arguing)
This is the finale of the “Where Does Business Logic Live?” series. Over five posts we have looked at , the , the , the reality, and the . Now let’s make it actionable. This…
Security, Misconceptions, and Hybrid Architectures
This is Part 5 of the “Where Does Business Logic Live?” series. We have made the , the , and the comparison. Three things remain before we can build a decision framework: how security actually…
Where Does Business Logic Live? A DBA’s Guide to the Stored-Procedures-vs-Application-Layers Debate
Few architecture questions generate more heat and less light than this one: should business logic live inside SQL Server stored procedures, or outside the database in application layers? Ask a room of developers and DBAs…
ADO Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
You’re in a meeting. Someone says “ADO.” Your brain — conditioned by 20+ years of muscle memory — immediately conjures up connection strings, recordsets, and ADODB.Connection. Then you realize they’re talking about a CI/CD pipeline….