Re: Mixing OO and DB

Patrick May schreef:

> The fact that views can be used actually demonstrates that the
> application can be decoupled from the schema.

Imagine trying to provide an example to illustrate the level of decoupling. I think we'ld wind up with aliases to refer to a subset of the same data the schema describes - or are you talking about more radical decoupling?

> application can be decoupled from the schema. You are suggesting
> using views to do so. That's one possible mechanism. OO languages
> provide others.

Which?

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