2005/06/02
I so wish that the idea that all websites need to store their content in a SQL database just goes away. Soon. A large number 'designers' or 'developers' or 'programmers', lets just call them people, feel that the only way to make a website is to bung things in a SQL database, and then use the template language du jour to spit it out. Problem is, they invariably get small things wrong, or don't escape the queries, or the links, or the variables or general bitrot sets in, and we get web pages littered with SQL error messages.
Like this one, from an art magazine I was reading:
Author Query failed : You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')' at line 1
Barf. Why on earth does this smallish little magazine figure they need SQL at all?
Because that the way that other people do it, so let's just go with the flow.
Of course I make other mistakes, and have just as bad errors in other places. But it IS fun to rant now and then, isn't it?
