Re: How are OO databases doing

From: dawn <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com>
Date: 15 Feb 2006 14:55:00 -0800
Message-ID: <1140044100.253141.295210@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>

x wrote:
> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:rKHIf.30325$VV4.312724_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> > x wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Are you saying that an SQL "database" is an hierarchic database because
> the
> > > parse tree of an sql statement is a tree ?
> >
> > Why on earth would anyone suggest anything so stupid?
>
> Why, indeed ?

Laughing. Perfect response.

When the nodes are trees in a di-graph linking them by way of foreign keys (such as with HTML, XML, MV) does that make them network databases instead?

Would the web be more effective, efficient, useful... if it worked with a relational model?
--dawn Received on Wed Feb 15 2006 - 16:55:00 CST