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Originally Posted by DaveHorn
Personally, I hope Markus worries about writing the game over such nonsense. I could care jack crap about having him write an ODBC driver for a proprietary database on an OS that I will not be using against a database schema that does me no good.
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No one is asking for an ODBC driver on an OS that you won't be using. A windows ODBC driver, which most databases come with built it is nothing to include.
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Originally Posted by DaveHorn
To Comedian2004 about your batting average example. Not sure of your point, but decisions are made all the time to use redundant data or store calculated fields because of performance reasons in real world applications.
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You're correct here but the calculations Comedian was making would not fall into the catagory you are referring to.
One point I'd like to make, and maybe Markus doesn't realize this either. There is no reason for the database schema to be proprietary. Anybody with an ounce of knowledge could come up with a normalized rational database schema. Markus' intellictuall property is in his game engine, not his database format. I'm willing to bet once we have version 7 in our hands, it would not take long for somone to come up with a schema close to what Markus is using.
I know several companies that give out the database layouts to encourage their clients to read and manipulate their data. It serves the same purpose as what Markus' would, so he doesn't have to develope 10,000+ different reports. The engine that creates the data is what's worth money, not the wherehouse its stored in.