On Monday 03 December 2007, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
Yes, but it is one level above native date/time fields.
All databases have equivalent functions for date math and the like (EXTRACT, INTERVAL, ...etc).
My point was the need for in-SQL operations for queries, which no matter how you abstract the individual CRUD (we already have user_load() and node_load() for that), you still need in-SQL for reporting and aggreggation.
Agreed. Doing that in a database independent fashion is the $64,000 question. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson