Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid |
Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Relationals vs. Objects Databases I
In article <6am1fp$hsq$1_at_pebble.ml.org>, Joel Garry
<joelga_at_pebble.ml.org> writes
>In article <2RiBjIAGjkz0EwWz_at_jbdr.demon.co.uk>,
>Jeremy Rickard <Jeremy_at_SPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <6al6n4$gc3$1_at_pebble.ml.org>, Joel Garry
>><joelga_at_pebble.ml.org> writes
>>
>>>Uh, if you have to embed it to get the functionality, then the SQL isn't
>>>very complete, is it?
>>
>>Oh, alright then! SQL isn't a complete programming language. It can't
>>draw pretty pictures or play pretty sounds (unless perhaps you write
>>UDF's for it in another language).
>
>If all it were lacking were draw and play capabilities, it wouldn't be a
>bad language.
>
Fortunately, you are posting to Oracle groups where we do have a language embedded in the database that can do just about anything you require. Plus some SQL!
Andy
-- Andy Hardy. PGP key available on request ===============================================================Received on Wed Jan 28 1998 - 00:00:00 CST