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Nov 09The Matryoshka Method
by in Representative Line on 2009-12-21"At one end of the system," Steve A writes "we have a fairly simple HTML-form that displayed a handful of shipping-related fields. At that the other end, there's a database table that pretty much matches those fields one-to-one. But in the middle.... there's a lot more."
"It's so hard to even begin describing our systems architectural problems, let alone using code to illustrate them. So instead, I'll just share this single line — a function definition — from a VB6 .dll that's called a as a plug-in by another VB6 .dll, which is in-turn called by a VB6 .exe that runs as a service. This function calls a single stored procedure, which in turn calls another stored procedure that call other stored procedures. But eventually, a row gets inserted."