Software Magazine, June 15th, 1989
Object-oriented data structures are likely to revolutionize relational database management systems (RDBMSs) in the 1990s, according to industry analysts. Objects are combinations of data and procedural code which enable the data to act upon itself. The new programming technique can handle substantially different types of entities in a single database structure and offers the benefits of extensibility and code reusability. Object-oriented technology is being heavily implemented in CAD-CAM applications and in computer-aided software engineering (CASE) products. Several object-oriented database p...
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