database abstraction layer

In this new post to his blog, Gonzalo Ayuso compares two technologies that can make working with databases in your applications simpler - PDO and the Doctrine2 DBAL layer.

Implicit and automatic connection failover done by the driver is broken by design, correct? Should PECL/mysqlnd_ms implement automatic failover?

Today Johannes showed me an IRC snippet about TAF (Transparent Application Failover).

Maybe, I fail miserably but I don’t see a need for automatic failover in a master slave replication loadbalancing plugin.

Let the application do it.

In this latest post to his blog Rob Allen takes a look at a problem he had when installing a project that used SQL Server as its data source - it just didn't work.

On the Symfony blog today there's a new post by Fabian Lange about using the detailed logging ability of the newly released version of Propel (the database abstraction layer).

Jeremy Zawodny has shared his opinion on database abstraction layers in PHP applications - they need to die.