Re: Object-relational impedence

From: Eric <eric_at_deptj.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:04:16 +0000
Message-ID: <slrnft01vg.ap4.eric_at_tasso.deptj.demon.co.uk>


On 2008-03-06, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox_at_dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:27:58 -0800 (PST), topmind wrote:
>
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:34:05 +0000, Eric wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2008-03-04, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox_at_dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't believe that merely using an RDBMS will solve all problems. What
>>>> I meant was that, accepting what David said above, if you keep your data
>>>> in an RDBMS, it will be easily available for the solution of any
>>>> possible problem that can be solved using that data.
>>>
>>> No, this as well is wrong. Keeping "data" in RDBMS puts certain
>>> restrictions on what can be stored there and how it can be used later.
>
> [...]
>> A RDMBS
>> cannot stop you from doing anything you want to with retrieved data.
>
> Yes, exactly this is wrong. (I hope you don't have in mind retrieving all
> content and continuing without RDBMS.)
>

This is how any database-using program works - it retrieves the _relevant_ data and does what it needs to do with it. This is not "continuing without RDBMS". But then you are the person who thinks that a single tool should be able to do everything. Here is a hammer, please take that screw out.

E Received on Thu Mar 06 2008 - 16:04:16 CET

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