This is not a microsoft V. Oracle issue. It is a fundamental design issue. Oracle doesn't handle business logic any better than Microsoft or

Sybase or IBM.

The "new" mind set is wrong. I was just at the SQL2005 road show and I asked the developer hosting that tract what the idea behind MS integration of the CLR into the database was. Are they trying to move business logic into the database. His response was that he could now create an application that would run with just the database and IIS using the xml fetures of SQL 2005. His next statement of course was just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Tell me how excellent a place the database is for business logic when you company says they are switching from Oracle to MSSQL or to IBM or any other. The real world dictates a level of flexabilty that business logic in the database does not support.

Please don't think I am encouraging DBAs to shrug off their responsibility. In fact, it is just the opposite. A DBAs responsibiblity to help the developer where the line between business logic and database functionality resides.