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From: wilson@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Paul Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: relational vs object-oriented
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Date: 15 Feb 89 16:33:09 GMT
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I may have missed the info I'm looking for, since I just started reading
this group, but could somebody point me to a bozo-level introduction
to OODB's? I have programmed in object-oriented languages, so something
that leverages off of that would be nice.  (My understanding of relational
databases is only very basic, millimeter-deep stuff.)

The paragraph-long explanation that this is a followup to was just the
sort of thing I'm looking for -- concise but clear.  Now I'm looking
for several pages, going a little deeper and giving examples.
(I've started to read two or three "pop" articles that seemed contentless
and confusing.  Something more to the point would be nice, as in "how
you can do relational operations on polymorphic data without horrendous
problems".)

Thanks prematurely,

   Paul


Paul R. Wilson                         
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory    lab ph.: (312) 413-0042
U. of Ill. at Chi. EECS Dept. (M/C 154) 
Box 4348   Chicago,IL 60680              wilson@carcoar.stanford.edu
Paul R. Wilson                         
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory    lab ph.: (312) 413-0042
U. of Ill. at Chi. EECS Dept. (M/C 154) 
Box 4348   Chicago,IL 60680              wilson@carcoar.stanford.edu