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

Tobias Brox <tobiasb_at_suptra.org> wrote in <9cr0ls$25h$1_at_tobiasb.invalid>:

>There are powers both within the relational model and the object model,
>and as far as I see, they don't contradict each other that much. One
>class (without inheritance) is a table, one object (without inheritance)
>is a row in the table. Inheritance is just a special case of a link
>between two objects - one object without inheritance, and another object
>just containing what's added in the child-class.

If you consider Chris Date or Hugh Darwen to be powers within the relational world, you will find that they oppose the "class=relation" view. They propose "class=domain".

Read the book "Foundation for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto" by C Date and H Darwen.

Or read an interview with Date:
http://www.dbmsmag.com/int9410.html

/Per Schröder
http://developer.mimer.com Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 20:01:04 CEST