Re: Need help to understand difference, and contrast between Relational database model and the Object-Oriented model

In article <gSzIb.703884$Tr4.1770994_at_attbi_s03>, Nobody <nobody_at_nowhere.net> writes
>You are missing the point. When I said "some sort of physical pointer"
>I didn't mean direct file offset: I glossed over this because different
>systems implement it differently. You can't apply your one experience
>to a whole class of databases; there is no rule saying a database must
>exist in one file.

Except that in this particular case, what you are thinking of as a file is actually the entire disk as a raw device ...

Not having any experience of R83 I can't be sure, but I think you'll find "the database is the computer" :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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