Just because the development tools are object orientated does not mean that the
database has to be as well.
Dick Goulet
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Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephane=20Paquette?= <stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 12/20/2002 9:04 AM
Is this the future ???
I know one big bank where the development is object
oriented and the database (DB2 UDB in this case) is
used as a big flat file. The development is using
java, j2ee, bea weblogic.
- DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM> a écrit
: > Stefan - I believe the general consensus had
emerged
> that usually object
> features aren't worth the effort. Often there are
> few benefits, and if you
> don't do it correctly you may see bad performance.
> Two questions:
> 1. Are your developers/management enamored with
> the concept of object, or
> is this just your own curiosity?
> 2. Is there something about your application that
> leads you to believe
> that it might derive significant benefit from the
> object features?
> For general business applications it is hard to beat
> the flexibility of the
> good old traditional relational data modeling.
> The lack of discussion may provide part of the
> answer to your question.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA, 40%OCP
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
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> Hi everybody
>
> I'm not quite sure wether this has been discussed in
> deep before, but I
> couldn't find anything satisfieing (hope the
> spelling is correct ;)) things
> in the archive.
> Anyway: Due to my lack of experience with any real
> life scenarios with
> Oracle's object relational features, I never tried
> to recommend the usage of
> these and always kept to a "normal" relational
> approach. Does anybody have
> any experience with Types / Nested Tables and the
> like in a (preferrably
> big) production system of any kind ? What's
> recommendable, where are the
> pitfalls ?
>
> Any input deeply appreciated,
> TIA, Stefan
>
>
>
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