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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart Gathman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: relational vs object-oriented
Summary: Simplified comparison
Message-ID: <152@bms-at.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 01:40:45 GMT
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Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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An O-O database is a relational database whose field/attribute/column
types are O-O "classes".  Therefore, the fields/elements/members are
"objects".  The relation is called a "set" and the records/tuples/rows
are called "records".  An aggregate class supports inserting records
into and querying the sets.  (Just like an "array" aggregate class
supports collections of objects in array form.)
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Stuart D. Gathman	<stuart@bms-at.uucp>
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