What are the design goals of Oracle8i Object-Relational & Extensibility technologies?
The design goals of Oracle8i Objects and Extensibility technologies are to: Provide users with the ability to model their business objects in the database by enhancing the type system to support user-defined types. These types are meant to closely model application objects and are treated as built-in types, such as number and character, by the database server. Provide an infrastructure to facilitate object-based access to data stored in an Oracle database and minimize the potential mismatch between the data model used in an application and the data model supported by a database. Provide built-in support for new data types needed in multi-media, financial and spatial applications. Provide a framework for database extensibility so that new multimedia and complex data types can be supported and managed natively in the database. This framework provides the infrastructure needed to allow extensions of the data server by third parties via data cartridges. This book talks about the object-rel
