Re: Object oriented oracle ?
Date: 1996/05/30
Message-ID: <4ol9l4$63n_at_ds9.ch2m.com>#1/1
There is some general debate about whether databases like
Oracle or Sybase are Object Oriented.
My feeling is that if a database can support things like
code modularity, message passing via stored code, information
hiding, and code re-use; then the database can possibly
support Object Oriented constructs. Oracle does this via
stored packages, procedures, functions, and triggers. While
tables, views, and indexes are objects. They probably not the
object oriented type objects your thinking of.
At the TUSC Web site (www.tusc.com) there is a Powerpoint
presentation on Object Oriented PL/SQL. I would suggest
reading that. And reading some of Boch's books on Object
Oriented design.
Good luck - this is kind of a vague topic to grasp for relational databases.
Jeff Crew Received on Thu May 30 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST