Re: Generic Modeling

<MSherrill_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message news: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
> indexed under "Halpin".)

Excellent! I found it. Thanks!

Dan

>
> >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
Received on Wed Jan 16 2002 - 07:54:43 CET