1.3. Object-Relational Databases
An object-relational database system supports everything a relational database system supports, as well as constructs for object-oriented development and design techniques. Object-oriented constructs are found in modern programming languages such as Java and C++. Both Oracle9i and Oracle 10g fully support all of the traditional object-oriented constructs and methods.
object-relational database
A relational database that includes additional operations and components to support object-oriented data structures and methods.
While the full range of object-oriented techniques is beyond the scope of this book, you will get a good idea of some of the object-oriented capabilities of Oracle, including abstraction, methods, ...
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