Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?

From: Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com>
Date: 17 Jul 2001 12:15:02 -0500
Message-ID: <uu20b8gc1.fsf_at_verizon.net>


On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, bbadour_at_golden.net wrote:

>>Object databases take care of
>>inheritance hierarchies internally.
>
> As do relational databases.

I don't understand how a relational database can represent inheritance. Most of the time, I can take an object model and logically map it to a relational model, because of, well, the relationships, but how do you model inheritance in a DB?

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Galen Boyer
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Received on Tue Jul 17 2001 - 19:15:02 CEST

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