From: Norman Harebottle
Date: 23 Feb 2006
I am a software engineer who recently graduated with a Master
of Software Engineering degree. In my
coursework we discussed at significant length the relational model in contrast
with the object-oriented database systems and methodologies being marketed
currently.
I recently ran across the article LINQ - Object Query
Language and it just started making my blood boil because it seems that
this "revolutionary" technology is simply a re-engineering of data
query engineering in an effort to work around existing holes in the
implementation of the full relational theory as set forth by Codd.
As database debunkers I would be highly interested in
your analysis of this technology in the light of practicality, operational
performance and relational theory.
From: Fabian Pascal
Congratulations, but I don't envy anybody these days who
studies, or goes out into the industry. Both are shaky propositions. If the
contrasting were sound you are very lucky.
Nothing that the big corporations (and MS of all) come up
with is ever revolutionary, there is too much ignorance and fast-buck
orientation for them to be able to do it, and it would be against their
interests anyway. The least thing corporations are is revolutionary, and their
customers are massively ignorant, so there is no incentive to make serious
efforts when they can sell anything just because they're big.
These things are rarely worth bothering with. Sounds like
some embedded SQL. Anything on data management that refers to objects does not
inspire confidence.
From: Hugh Darwen
Yes, it looks cringe-making.
Sigh again.
Posted 4/14/06
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