Re: What is analysis?

TroyK wrote:

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>Now, what would be really cool is to not have to do that
>conversion (along with the 1-2 orders of magnitude more code)
>to the classes. In other words, some form of native support
>for declaring and manipulating relvars. That's why the "Dee"
>project is interesting to me. As Paul mentioned, it would be
>nice to see a similar effort on a more widely adopted dev
>platform (my bias being towards .NET).

There's all sorts of bridging between database schemas and object models in the .NET world, partly within the .NET languages themselves (e.g. with C# indexers and value types you can construct things that are basically relvars; there's ADO.NET Datasets; there is third-party ORM software; there is LINQ).

But I don't really know how ypu can somehow make the fact "go away" that database data reside in the database, while .NET data reside in main memory. They have to be transported across somehow, and the details of that often matter.

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