Re: Re: OODB

check out the one by (Rick) R. G. G. Cattel (of SunSoft). Don't remember the title, but think it's something like Object Database Management Systems. -drew wade drew@objy.com In article <1992May30.134818.15429@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> bjtong@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Banchong Harangsri) writes: >Dear Will, > >>Is "Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases" any good? What level is >>the book written for? I'm interested in learning more about about OODBs >>but haven't really seen a good book on it. Can you give a quick review? > >>Thanx! >>Will >>(uunet!la4gen!villy) > > The author of this book is very well-known in this area(OODB) and he >has done the research on the database area for several year from the >relational database until OODB. > I'm sorry that I'm only a beginner in this area; however, my >feeling about this book is that this book is based on the author's >project ORION, which is a good prototype model of OODBs since we >haven't had a standard of OODB as yet. > I think this book is very good book because it covers everything that >we need to know beginning from the data model, schema modification, >a proposed model of queries and a corresponding query language and >so on. Also, this book is a bit hard to read since one who wants to read >this book should have some basic background of a relational database for >example. > A book that I would like to recommend is the book by Hughes, John G. >named "Object-oriented databases" from Prentice Hall, 1991. By the way, >not so many books on this area have been published as I know. > Finally, thank you very much for replying to me. > >Best regards, >banchong > >P.S. I'm soory that I have already sent you a reply mail but this mail >returned back to me since the address doesn't exist or something wrong. >I therefore decide to post this mail into the news. >