Hi Walter

>What I mean here is that (database) data itself does not fit in the OO very well. An OO implementation of a database engine would be quite a chalenge. Most database engines have a procedural language attached rather than OO (SQL, xBase DML is procedural). It has been for decades and though various experiments with OO database engine have been done, none was particulary succesfull. SQL (which is non-OO) still seems to be the best choice.
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>I'm really anxious to see how they will implement SQL in an OO fashion ....

Is that actually what they are going to do? Or is that what everyone is anticipating?

We have written various OO frameworks that don't require you to write a single line of SQL to retrieve and store data, it's possible that rather than replace SQL they may just conceal it and access data purely through objects, but then there would have to be other means of mapping DB to Objects......

Kev