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

Marshall,

> The point that I'm trying to make is: how hard is it to do ad hoc
> analysis of a database when the database supports a SQL
> interface, vs. a custom C-function or Java-class API? There
> is a significant difference in the efforts needed, and in the
> degree of flexibility that is supported.

For whom ? An OO expert, an SQL expert, a user ? Are you saying there's an *absolute* difference, not just a relative one ? If the latter, where does that difference come from ?

Laurent Received on Sun Jun 04 2006 - 04:06:03 CDT