Re: Relationals vs. Objects Databases I

In article <6a86l9$o5_at_news3.euro.net>, Richard Ronteltap <rontltap_at_euronet.nl> writes

>>In practice, SQL seems complete enough in my experience.
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>Have you written a real-life sizable program in SQL?
>Probably not. Which language did you integrate with?
>How much time did you spend on relational <-> programming
>language mapping code?

If this is what you meant, I have actually seen a stock-ordering system (for a large retail company) successfully implemented that relied almost entirely on set-based SQL updates and inserts. This however is not the norm in my experience.

The (batch) systems I work on these days handle high volumes, but the programs themselves tend to be very simple, because the SQL removes a lot of the work. The design complexity is at the system level rather than the unit (program) level.

I suspect that the software you're trying to develop is of a fundamentally different nature if you're finding all these problems.

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Jeremy Rickard

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