I rather suspect that technically speaking Oracle and IBM etc no longer
supply relational databases but object relational ones (to a greater or
lesser degree). similarly it is possible to store user defined objects/types
in Oracle. However as rather befits two academics (and one pedant - me) this
is an entirely academic discussion. The original question cannot in fact be
answered for all the reasons you detail in your other post.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"damorgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
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> Perhaps you should learn a bit more about Oracle. There is a field type
> in Oracle named BLOB for storing Binary Large Objects. It will store
> anything up to 4GB be it an executable, an image file (for example
> .BMP), a sound file (for example .WAV), or a movie (for example .AVI).
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
>
>
>
> Larry Coon wrote:
>
> > Mikael Petterson wrote:
> >
> > > I only have the option to store objects in a relational database.
> >
> > Then technically speaking, there is no possible solution.
> > A relational database, by definition, won't store objects.
> >
> > You probably want an object-relational database.
> >
> > Larry Coon
> > University of California
> > larry_at_assist.org
> > and lmcoon_at_home.com
>
Received on Thu Apr 04 2002 - 02:33:55 CST
