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Discussion on: Database Drivers: Chauffeuring Your Data to Where it Needs to Go

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Abdur Rehman Khalid

An Excellent Article that Shows Great Importance of Having the Database Drivers. But If we look at the present and what kind of development is being done in the present, we will come to know that modern development is done with the help of Object Relation Mapping, for large scale organizations and for small scale organizations such as startups and small e-commerce business MongoDB is being in use because there is very less hustle related to Relational or SQL databases.

But if we want to work in large and old organizations then it is very important to know how database drivers actually work and how we can use these drivers efficiently as well. By knowing all these things I am pretty sure that we will be able to get a tremendous increase in productivity and also the resources will be utilized in a very well manner as well.

Yes, the tech-stack will get bigger, but it will have advantages in understanding the underhood working of the databases and how database connections work in the different programming languages if the team is full of enthusiasm then this will surely be a fun thing to learn too.

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Margo McCabe

Thanks for sharing, this is great insight! Yes, DB drivers have been around forever, it was interesting that I couldn't find much new info on them so it seemed like a good opening to write about it. :)

Though they're old, there are still plenty of applications that use database drivers today. I do agree that the paradigm has been shifting away in modern application development, but that's not true of all types of applications. For example, BI tools still rely on database drivers as their primary method of interacting with databases of all types ranging from Oracle to MongoDB.