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Evolutionary Database Design

Posted by Hemos on from the jurassic-database-park dept.

Andre Mermegas writes "Check out this article by everybody's favorite object mentor Martin Fowler on database design. Be sure to take a peek at his wonderful books as well."

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  1. Re:relational databases, woo hoo by VP · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think many people are confusing Relational databases with SQL database - they are not one and the same. In fact, this site, one of the most vocal proponents of relational databases, states that none of the existing SQL databases is a true relational database. A quote from one of their articles ( "Little Relationship to Relational"):

    "Not only do most practitioners think that SQL DBMSs are relational, but they actually blame the problems due to SQL's violations of, or lack of adherence to relational principles on the relational model itself!"

    In my opinion, there is no reason that an object-oriented environment cannot implement the relational model, and thus be a true relational database.