Re: Is supertyping orthadox?

JRStern <JRStern_at_gte.net> wrote:
: Well, if they were *mature* by that measure, they would duplicate a
: standard relational database. And, what would the point be of that?

By that reasoning, if they would "mature", they would also duplicate all of Oracle Apps. And maybe SAP.
Different tools, different directions.

: They have never heard of doing analysis and design for applications.
: They don't know their entities from their domains.
 

: They probably load the entire database into RAM in some middle-tier
: anyway, should probably implement their meta-schema in flat files
: anyway.

I am glad to see that we share loathing for middle-tier designs (and PHBs who count 4-tiers as 3-tiers).
But I was asking for a detailed criticism of their product, rather than personal assaults on their skills. Yes, it is obvious that they have either a poor grasp of relational theory or that they are directly assaulting the tenets of it. But proving that 'they have never heard of design' might be somewhat difficult, and does not advance the discussion at hand. Moreover, a suggestion that they move their work into flat files strikes me as fatalistic, to say the least.

There are a lot of people coming into the relational world from several directions, OO amongst them, and the interfaces between the relational world and the one these people have worked in is still up in the air. Maybe we can illustrate some of them in the future. Received on Thu Mar 22 2001 - 03:56:44 CET