OT Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases

From: Dan <guntermann_at_verizon.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:51:03 GMT
Message-ID: <HHCnd.1160$0k1.504@trnddc08>

"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:5VBnd.361746$wV.199752_at_attbi_s54...
> "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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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
> motivate a verbal dismissal of relational.

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...

> Marshall
>

Received on Sat Nov 20 2004 - 01:51:03 CST