Re: Object-oriented thinking in SQL context?

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<439c733f-05f3-4240-a009-c13dae47ddc1_at_r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, dr.coffee1_at_gmail.com writes

>
>I'm blaming the community because members seem systematically
>unable to project themselves into the shoes of a newbie, and
>are thus unable to see the subject from the newbie's perspective.
>
>That's a sign of a professional community well on its way
>to professional degeneracy.

At the moment relational theory seems to be so effective at handling low-level database management that I think that its practitioners are quite right in considering themselves an essential component of efficient systems design.

On the other hand from an OO practitioner's point of view relational theory is a quite little backwater that doesn't have much applicability in the real world.

I don't see an inherent conflict between these views and both are very probably true.

-- 
Bernard Peek