|Oracle8i Application Developer's Guide - Object-Relational
Features Release 2 (8.1.6) Part Number A76976-01 This chapter
explains the implementation and performance characteristics of
Oracle's object-relational model. Use this information to map a
logical data model into an Oracle physical implementation, and
when developing applications that use object-oriented features.
This chapter covers the following topics: You should be familiar
with the basic concepts behind Oracle objects before you read
this chapter. You can store objects in columns of relational
tables as column objects, or in object tables as row objects.
Objects that have meaning outside of the relational database
object in which they are contained, or objects that are shared
among more than one relational database object, should be made
referenceable as row objects. That is, such objects should be
stored in an object table instead of in a column of a relational
table. For example, an object of object type CUSTOMER has
meaning outside of any par