[MUD-Dev] Re: DBMS in MU*'s

["Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com>]

On 11 Aug 98, J C Lawrence wrote:
> 
> Attempting to translate my model into, say, an SQL DB (as I briefly
> attempted), poses problems.  The inter-object relationships which
> (presumably) require indexes are dynamic and defined by the
> user-written contents and definitions of the objects.  As such I can't
> pre-define the record structure in a manner that maps directly to the
> object heirarchy.  
>

Update to earlier threads:
I have found a few theoretical papers on this pesky problem of 
mapping runtime dynamic objects into relational architectures.  

see: 
  <URL: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/dbimpl/blobs.html> 
  and  
  <URL:http://researchsmp2.cc.vt.edu/DB/db/indices/a-tree/r/Reinwald:Berthold .html>

B. Reinwald's papers on SMRC are right up this alley.  I wasn't able to find
out much about SMRC on the IBM web site as to it's availabilty for DB2/PC.
But the papers will provide some good "oo's and ah's" before your eyes
glaze over and you fall asleep. ;)    

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