Re: Storing objects in a RDBMS? - OT

This may explain why I've lasted so long <g>

And I'll leave it at that.

Daniel Morgan

Jim Kennedy wrote:

> Pounding a square peg into a round hole is actually a useful thing in some
> contexts.
>
> For example, when I was a young lad my grandfather and I were sitting in his
> kitchen. There was an antique floor standing cupboard in the room. He
> pointed out that while the IQ tests where you have to put the matching
> shapes into the matching hole always graded you higher if you matched them
> correctly that was not the way to make furniture. Furniture made in that
> manner falls apart quickly. He pointed out that the antique floor standing
> cupboard was in fact made with round holes and octagonal pegs and it had
> lasted 200 years so far...
> Jim
>
> "Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message
> news:l05r8.1005$c02.102089_at_news.uswest.net...
> >
> > "damorgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> > news:3CACC064.9D7D0B7D_at_exesolutions.com...
> > > You wrote:
> > > "I try to read and answer posts based on what the posterintended."
> >
> > Actually, I wrote: ".... what the poster intended." :)
> >
> > > And I absolutely agree. But a posting to an RDBMS forum, whether
> > Oracle or
> > > Sybase or both leads me to think of storing objects inside the
> > database
> > > ... not C++ concepts of encapsulation, inheritance, and
> > polymorphism.
> >
> > Mebbe it's because I happen to be working on an application that is
> > heavily into OO and the OO has creeped into the RDBMS. All the issues
> > with pounding a round peg into a square whole exist too.
> >
> > > What the poster indended ... is implicit in where the poster chooses
> > to
> > > post.
> >
> > I believe this is "you like strawberry and I like vanilla"
> > --
> > Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
> > mailto:pablo_at_hpdbe.com
> > Available for short-term and long-term contracts
> >
> >
Received on Fri Apr 05 2002 - 11:05:58 CST