Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Pablo Sanchez" From: "Pablo Sanchez" Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.oracle.misc References: <3CAB11C8.3316A8BB@hotmail.com> <3CAB82C2.4DAF@assist.org> <3CABA008.9CCC9CBA@exesolutions.com> <3CAC8429.731C@assist.org> <3CAC8C78.8FA7FE6C@exesolutions.com> <3CACC064.9D7D0B7D@exesolutions.com> Subject: Re: Storing objects in a RDBMS? Lines: 30 Organization: High-Performance Database Engineering X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:06:57 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.225.105.222 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1017961617 207.225.105.222 (Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:06:57 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:06:57 CST Xref: easynews comp.databases.sybase:21041 comp.databases.oracle.misc:79687 X-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:04:42 MST (news.easynews.com) "damorgan" wrote in message news:3CACC064.9D7D0B7D@exesolutions.com... > You wrote: > "I try to read and answer posts based on what the posterintended." Actually, I wrote: ".... what the poster intended." :) > 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. Mebbe it's because I happen to be working on an application that is heavily into OO and the OO has creeped into the RDBMS. All the issues with pounding a round peg into a square whole exist too. > What the poster indended ... is implicit in where the poster chooses to > post. I believe this is "you like strawberry and I like vanilla" -- Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering mailto:pablo@hpdbe.com Available for short-term and long-term contracts