Re: Database-valued attributes?

"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message news:botq7m$rs6$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com...
> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
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> > "Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message
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> > > "Dan" <guntermannxxx_at_verizon.com> wrote in message
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> > > > First, how do you type a database value?
> > >
> > > More interestingly, do we even want to type database values?
> >
> > Yes, of course, we do.
>
> What makes you so sure?

Longstanding empirical results that strongly typed languages are more productive languages to use than untyped or weakly typed languages. The database has a type regardless whether we recognize it. Received on Thu Nov 13 2003 - 00:31:44 CET