Re: faking inheritance in Oracle 8.0

From: Phil Bradley <pbradley_at_pacific.net.sg>
Date: 1997/10/06
Message-ID: <3439C1CA.6F639A51@pacific.net.sg>#1/1

Edward

This is both a simple and difficult problem. Simple in that the solutions are well understood. Difficult in that no one can agree on what is the right one.

FYI SQL92 does not address this issue. Interestingly, I am told SQL3 does not address it either.

There are 3 (or 4) well defined solutions. None of which is perfect.

Recounting the solutions would take a lot of time and others have done it much better than I could. If you need to know, send me an email and I have got some HTMLs that cover this ground.

Phil Bradley

Edward Liu wrote:

> Hi
>
> Oracle8.0 does not support inheritance. However, I heard it can be
> faked by using object views and possibly object reference. Would
> anyone familiar with this let me know how? I am looking for and
> evaluating different approaches before Oracle implements inheritance in
> future releases.
>
> thanks
>
> Ed
Received on Mon Oct 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT