Re: Object-relational impedence
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:31:32 +0000
Message-ID: <fqmle2$fe1$1_at_news.datemas.de>
Marshall wrote:
> On Mar 3, 8:52 am, JOG <j..._at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
>>I was hoping perhaps people might be able to offer
>>perspectives on the issues that they have encountered.
> Object oriented languages work in object-at-a-time terms.
> The relational model works in set-at-a-time terms. One
> Even when those objects are collections, if one wants to
> operate on every object in the collection, one iterates
> over the objects in the collection and calls methods on
> those objects one at a time.
> operates on entire sets at once.
This is a fallacy.
In any system, if I have a set S of tuples (x,y) , and request the
following :
> The two don't fit together very well.
Regards,
Steven Perryman
Received on Wed Mar 05 2008 - 18:31:32 CET