Re: Unknown SQL

>> So, you claim it is easier to force the user to know about Arrays, Sets,
>> Bags, Collections, Iterators, Children, Parents etc. than it is to force
 the
>> user to know about Relations, Tuples and Domains?
>
>All of the above constructs are part of the Java programming language.

So, your concept of a DBMS limits the user community to a very select group of highly trained programmers?

>We
>neither force the user to know about them, nor to use them.

So, as long as your force all of your users to first learn Java, you are off the hook?

>If a programmer uses any of these JDK classes, we store them directly,
>without any detours through relational mappers to tables, which would be
>unsuitable.

Of course such a wrapper would be unsuitable. Classes map to Domains and not to Tables. Duh!

>What is the programming language of your choice?

Any. Although, I have to admit to a certain aversion to COBOL.

>Relational?

I'm kinda partial to the syntax Date uses in most of his writings.

>Can you program a parser with it, a text editor or a web-browser?

Why on earth would anyone want to program a text editor with a DBMS? It is an inappropriate use of the tool. Can you program a text editor solely with your product? Or does one need to use a programming language, such as Java, as well? Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 01:28:25 CEST