Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!news-west.eli.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CACC064.9D7D0B7D@exesolutions.com> From: damorgan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Storing objects in a RDBMS? References: <3CAB11C8.3316A8BB@hotmail.com> <3CAB82C2.4DAF@assist.org> <3CABA008.9CCC9CBA@exesolutions.com> <3CAC8429.731C@assist.org> <3CAC8C78.8FA7FE6C@exesolutions.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 21:06:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.74.250.7 X-Complaints-To: yvonne.tracy@ci.seattle.wa.us X-Trace: news-west.eli.net 1017954404 156.74.250.7 (Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:06:44 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:06:44 MST Organization: City of Seattle NewsReader Service Xref: easynews comp.databases.sybase:21037 comp.databases.oracle.misc:79683 X-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:04:31 MST (news.easynews.com) You wrote: "I try to read and answer posts based on what the posterintended." And I absolutely agree. But a posting to an RDBMS forum, whether Oracle or Sybase or both leads me to think of storing objects inside the database ... not C++ concepts of encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. What the poster indended ... is implicit in where the poster chooses to post. Daniel Morgan Pablo Sanchez wrote: > "damorgan" wrote in message > news:3CAC8C78.8FA7FE6C@exesolutions.com... > > > > Were this a C++ or Java forum I would agree with you. But this is an > Oracle > > forum ... > > Nope, it's a cross-posted message to .sybase and .oracle.misc Perhaps > you're getting your News via an email gateway and can't see that ... > > > and questions are answered in the context of the forum. > > Ahm, that's certainly one way to approach it ... personally, when a > post is vague, I try to read and answer posts based on what the poster > intended. > > I try, don't always succeed, at not pontificating nor dressing down > people. :o > -- > Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering > mailto:pablo@hpdbe.com > Available for short-term and long-term contracts