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indkal
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 1:48 pm    Post subject: Use of object relational Reply with quote

Wondering how much of the object concepts with respect to Oracle are utilized in industry. I am referring to object types and creating a table with it, object methods with PL/SQL functions, etc. Does the traditional relational data model not provide more easier functionality?

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PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Does the traditional relational data model not provide more easier functionality?


Well, object concepts are not part of the relational model.

But after the OO hype in the 90th and the flop of pure OO-DBMS all database vendors implemented OO concepts. Today most of the DBMS are so-called object-relational systems.

But there is no easier functionality to implement object concepts. Either you work with these object types or you do the "traditional way" - means mapping objects to simple tables, implement methods as procedures or functions etc.
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