Re: S.O.D.A. database Query API - call for comments

From: Lee Fesperman <firstsql_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:00:46 GMT
Message-ID: <3AF0B909.68F8_at_ix.netcom.com>


Carl Rosenberger wrote:
>
> JRStern wrote:
> > >- We are creating an API, not a query language. The API will allow to
 create
> > >queries step-by-step with many small functions.
> >
> > Of course, it was exactly to get away from that, that SQL was
> > invented.
>
> Great!
> Do you have any links to old approaches?
> Thanks in advance.

Great! Take a look at what you're reinventing. Do a search for "hierarchical data model" and "network data model", also "codasyl".

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