Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 21:43:13 +0200, Laurent Bossavit <laurent_at_dontspambossavit.com> wrote:

>> Persistence is not a necessary feature for a dbms.
>
>So... When you turn off the computer on which a persistence-less DBMS
>runs... what happens, exactly ?

     The power goes off.

     Whether this affects the medium that the persistence-less DBMS was stored on depends on whether the medium is volatile. For example, core memory is not volatile.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Fri Jun 02 2006 - 16:22:01 CDT