Josh Berkus schrieb:
I've looked into OODBMS for my business. However, I've kept from
using any in production for one simple reason: lack of a standard.
There is no international standard for OODBMS, meaning that each
OODBMS is its own animal and databases are not at all portable between
dif
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 4:03 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Charles,
>
> > as far as I aware, constantly evolving schema is not one of
> > relational databases
> > strengths."
>
> All of the above issues are easily solvable by a SQL expert. "You
> show me somebody preaching about the 'limitations' of r
Charles,
> ".is perhaps evolving its schema _more_ now that sequencing is
> finished and annotation is really picking up speed, you should not
> think that
> the changes are going to get less ! You will have to deal with
> problems like
> genes that get renamed but you still need the old name
Perhaps a mistake to ask this here (heresy I suspect) but I would be
interested in the perspectives of people who make a living at this.
Background: I am a molecular biologist trying to build a database
containing genomic data, strain details, community info (people,
publications etc). Every
