Re: Relationals vs. Objects Databases I

In article <6a5vg3$gjf$1_at_pebble.ml.org>, Joel Garry <joelga_at_pebble.ml.org> writes

>>>No. All OO programming languages are computationally complete
>>>(only requires arrays, if and goto (loops)). OO centainly 'fits' the way
>>>people think about problems.
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>>In practice, SQL seems complete enough in my experience.
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>Perhaps you are using SQL to mean the various extended sql's like SQL*Plus?

No, I really meant standard SQL. In the sort of work I do, we typically embed it in a standard 3GL such as COBOL II, which is quite capable of a few iterations and selections if needs be! Cursors tend to be used more often than pure set-based SQL.

Adding this procedural support to SQL itself would be completely against the principles of relational algebra, with seemingly few advantages over embedding SQL in a host language.

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Jeremy Rickard

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