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From: jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Extended RDB vs OODB
Message-ID: <19@dgis.daitc.mil>
Date: 11 Aug 89 22:07:31 GMT
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jack@odi.com (Jack Orenstein) writes:
>I assume that by "extended rdb" you mean a relational database system
>that permits instances of object classes to be stored in fields of
>tuples, instead of just numbers and strings.

What advantages of this approach would you see over support for
domains and abstract data types?

-- Jon