Yep. As derby proposes ... write the SQL as optimal as you can, wrap it up as stored procs and then generate the DAO. In the project I spend most of my time on we have some 700 stored procs that need to be accessed from ASP and VB code ... what could be easier than to whip up some Perl code that'll connect to the database, load the info about the stored procs and generate the whole data access layer.

Sure the layer will not be any dandy OO, but if you wanted that you could put another layer on top of this thing very easily. I never felt the need.

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