Re: Has E/R had a negative impact on db?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:58:11 +0200
Message-ID: <444d57d4$0$31654$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Jan Hidders wrote:
[snip]
> Encapsulation is a nonsensical concept in the context of data
> modelling.
Yes. Yet, it is a very useful concept in partitioning software. It takes some time for software developers to take off that hat and get into the data-centric mindset needed to grow a proper data-model - that is /if/ they manage to do that. Some can't, and rely on hibernate or other Object-Relational-Mapping tools (unfortunately also abbreviated as ORM, _at_#&$#!) to create throw-away software.
> It looks a bit as if the problem is more that you are
> retro-fitting terminology from the world of object-oriented programming
> into the world of datamodelling that has no place there. ;-) More to
> the point: it's certainly not an inherent part of modelling with ER
> dialects.
Received on Tue Apr 25 2006 - 00:58:11 CEST