OT Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:51:03 GMT
Message-ID: <HHCnd.1160$0k1.504_at_trnddc08>
This is OT. Sorry...
> I was a fairly staunch OO guy once upon a time, and I was rather
> convinced that relational databases were boring and stupid.
Out of curiosity, what was the impetus for such a broadening leap? It seems
to me that individuals such as you are a rare breed indeed. Of course
psychology, creative writing, and computer science are pretty broad and
independent strokes themselves.
> I'm not sure if any solid performance argument is necessary to
Forget of course that that OO, particularly Java, is not the screaming
performance devil itself. With the same logic in isolation, we could
advocate dumping OO and going back to assembly language (or even C). So
perhaps OO proponents should know better...
> motivate a verbal dismissal of relational.
> Marshall
>
- Dan