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Re: Unknown SQL

From: Carl Rosenberger <carl_at_db4o.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:56:58 +0200
Message-ID: <9f8vkc$2fc$02$1@news.t-online.com>

Bob Badour wrote:
> OODBMSs use garbage collection, however, and Carl was trying to
> make a claim that garbage collection is easier or more intuitive than
> cascading deletes.

You are interpreting more into my posting than I was trying to say.

> In an OODBMS, the DBMS will not delete the
> enrollment until all the references to it are gone. IE. one must delete
> both the student and the class before the enrollment disappears.

We are just about to release a callback interface for cascading deletes.

Kind regards,
Carl

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Carl Rosenberger
db4o - database for objects - http://www.db4o.com
Received on Fri Jun 01 2001 - 15:56:58 CDT

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