Re: Object-relational database.

Juan Pardillos wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that Oracle is an object-relational database. Probably this
> is a stupid question, but... where is the object-oriented part?. The
> way I have used Oracle so far implies to deal with tables, SQL and
> PL/SQL to create stored procedures (the same way I would use other
> only-relational databases as MySQL). Can anybody give me a (simple)
> example of why Oracle is object oriented?.
>
> Thanks in advance

So far you have apparently ignored all of the object types and all of the Java and all of the XML.

If you only build relational tables you will only be working with rows and columns.

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