Re: Object-oriented SQL statements

On Jul 24, 5:33 pm, Zorro <zor..._at_tx.rr.com> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2:59 pm, JOG <j..._at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > On Jul 23, 8:45 pm, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
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> > > Marshall wrote:
> > > > On Jul 23, 7:43 am, Nis Jørgensen <n..._at_superlativ.dk> wrote:
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> > > >>Bob Badour skrev:
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> > > >>>Zorro wrote:
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> > > >>>>Please comment on the approach illustrated in :
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> > > >>>>http://www.zhmicro.com/Database.pdf
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> > > >>>>On July 19 this was posted at comp.object.
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> > > >>>Typical nonsense from comp.object on how to cripple a DBMS by forcing it
> > > >>>through a low-level procedural language and a profoundly limited interface.
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> > > >>That would be my guess as well, without following the link :-)
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> > > > LOL
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> > > > Skimmed over it. It doesn't support joins. You can only query one
> > > > table at a time.
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> > > > This has become the first question I ask when I see a new
> > > > approach: what does join support look like?
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> > > > Marshall
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> > > Good points, it looks like one has to re-invent the relops for oneself.
> > > Successful consultants usually see the financial advantage in that.
> > > Yet they say they have a happy marriage which confines them to the SQL
> > > standard. I predict divorce at some point. It also says they have a
> > > verifiable conceptual model. What does it mean to verify the conceptual
> > > model of SQL? Looks like they are just throwing words around, like most
> > > vendors, they might change all the words tomorrow and still sell the
> > > same product. The selling point might be that it would be just as
> > > coherent as it was yesterday, namely not at all. There seems to be no
> > > lack of buyers who consider that an advantage.
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> > > Does the OP somehow qualify as SPAM, eg., the database equivalent of
> > > scientology?
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> > > p
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> > I just wrote off the original post as spam as soon as I saw it. More
> > retro-grade rubbish. No wonder people like pascal just give up.- Hide quoted text -
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> Well, I was looking for comments from experts who would also take a
> few minutes to evaluate the model. If you do not have the time, there
> is no need to say or do anything.
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> Thanks just the same.
> Dr. Z.

I did give you comments. When I read:

"Generally, the purpose of executing the select statement is to receive a set of records from a database. An object-oriented approach to collecting a set of objects is to instantiate a container with the type of such records."

I decided it was retro-grade nonsense. If you don't like my assessment this is hardly my fault. I then offered you the further comment that it is this sort of thing that makes real experts such as f. pascal give up.

I would have found these very useful points for further research if it had been my work, but then i don't have anything to sell. Received on Wed Jul 25 2007 - 11:59:16 CEST