Review Questions

1.What are the weaknesses of legacy RDBMSs?
2.What is object-relational database? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
3.How did an ORDBMS emerged? Discuss in detail.
4.What are the ORDBMS products available for commercial applications?
5.Compare RDBMSs with ORDBMSs. Describe an application scenario for which you would choose a RDBMS and explain the reason for choosing it. Similarly, describe an application scenario for which you would choose an ORDBMS and again explain why you have chosen it.
6.What do you mean by complex objects? List some of the complex objects that can be handled by ORDBMS.
7.What is the structured query language used in ORDBMSs? What are its standard parts? Discuss them in brief.
8.Discuss the ORDBMS ...

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