Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

On 2006-05-31 11:09:05 -0500, "topmind" <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

This sounds like the "RDBMS is a low-level tool/service" argument. I
have to disagree. One can treat it merely as a filing system, but can
also treat it as a sophisticated modeling tool.

Agreed. You CAN use the RDBMS as the application programming language. However, if you do that, then you have made the decision about application programming language. You can't defer this decision very long.


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