<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">In the previous study design, VCAA explicitly warned against the use of external database engines in SD so students would focus on the fundamentals of programming concepts, including records, and sequential/random files.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I'm not sure whether VCAA's new proviso that </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(31,73,125);display:inline">"databases are not </div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">not to be used <b>in the interface laye</b>r" is intended to repeat or amend that philosophy. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Paula?</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 October 2015 at 12:34, Robert Hallworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hallworth.r@wcc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">hallworth.r@wcc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">ALSO what does “Note that databases are </span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>not to be used in the interface layer.” mean?? Can I use MySQL in logic layer or NOT??<p></p>
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