Re: Generic Modeling
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:17:39 GMT
Message-ID: <3c431489.6788911_at_news.compuserve.com>
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
>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?
I don't know, but I'd be surprised.
-- Mike Sherrill Information Management SystemsReceived on Tue Jan 15 2002 - 02:17:39 CET