Re: Generic Modeling

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:17:47 GMT, "D Guntermann" <guntermann_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hmmm. Could not find the reference in Date's 7th Edition Introduction,

Dig, dig, dig . . . pp 444-446. (*That* took me a while. It's indexed under "Halpin".)

>I did find information about ConQuer at http://www.orm.net/pdf/ER96.pdf.
>Many aspects of ConQuer seem appealing in terms of bridging perceived gaps
>between a conceptual query to either an underlying relational or
>object-oriented database query (presumably dependent on base structures),
>independent of the syntax or construction of the underlying query.

I think it strikes at the core of "What, not how". SQL has a lot more "how" than I'd like.

>Yet, some of the justification of the benefit of ConQuer seems flawed

I'm too ignorant about ConQuer to comment on this. Anyone else?

>Is this what Xdb uses?

I don't know, but I'd be surprised.

-- 
Mike Sherrill
Information Management Systems