Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dgis!jkrueger 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 References: <3560052@wdl1.UUCP> <411@odi.ODI.COM> Organization: DTIC Special Projects Office (DTIC-SPO), Alexandria VA Lines: 9 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