Re: An object-oriented network DBMS from relational DBMS point of view
Date: 12 Mar 2007 23:23:13 -0700
Message-ID: <1173766993.340230.80760_at_q40g2000cwq.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 11, 6:57 pm, "Marshall" <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a general tendency I have observed when people come
Another, more productive reason would be to see what precisely each of
the two systems has to contribute, and to use the mapping/analogy/
morphism to arrive at new perspectives on both. For me the prime
insight from this sort of thing into OO has been that relational
normal forms have a lot to say about refactoring, and vice versa, I
had a hard time understanding polymorphism under the RM till I went
> across a new way of doing things that they try to map their old
> way of doing things on to the new way. That enables them to
> use techniques they already have under the new system.