Re: Mixing OO and DB

Bob Badour wrote:

>> [...] If we are, for example, comparing a flat
>> file backend to a SQL database backend, we have a serious
>> mismatch if we want to address them with a single polymorphic
>> interface.
>
>Unless one buys Alphora's Dataphor. In that case, one codes in D, a
>relational programming language, and the product translates that into
>whatever approximation of the relational calculus the back-end will support.

Microsoft .NET provides something similar with LINQ.

Another approach is to write SQL backends, e.g. for ODBC. Microsoft also provides those. I can open a CSV file and perform SQL queries on it.

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Reinier