Re: Saving OO objects in a relational database.

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Gooli wrote:

One of the best maintained sites on this subject is at Object Architects:

http://www.objectarchitects.de/

I would highly recommend Wolfgang Keller if you need consulting in this area.

HTH akmal

> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:26:21 +0200
> From: Gooli <gooli_at_mailandnews.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.databases, comp.databases.object, comp.databases.oracle,
> comp.databases.theory
> Subject: Saving OO objects in a relational database.
>
> I am working on a project that requires the storage and loading of
> complex C++ objects in a relational (Oracle 8.0) database.
>
> The C++ structure has many level of inheritance, and what is more
> intimidating, is the fact that the objects to be saved contain multiple
> dimention arrays.
>
> I am looking for information on the Internet, that descrtibes solutions
> for problems of this kind (storing and loading complex OO structures
> in a relational database). Names of books, and references to companies
> that can offer consultation on the subject are welcome as well.
> The main issue here is speed in both fetching the information and storing
> it in the database.
> Until now, due to the complexity of the data we were saving the objects
> as LONG RAW (using MFC's Serialize) but this way has many limitations,
> and defies the purpose of a relational database.
>
> Any comments will be greatly appriciated, as well as requests to post
> the details of the design.
>
> P.S.
> We use ADO for the communication with the database, so nested tables
> and object relational design are not relevant (unless they added things to
> ADO that I don't know about)...
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Jun 09 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST