Posted by Manuel Lemos on 10/21/46 11:59

Hello,

on 09/22/2006 08:41 PM Tony Marston said the following:
> On ORM (Object Relational Mapper) most definitely does NOT facilitate data
> retrieval. It is used when the structure within an object is different from
> the structure within that part of the relational database with which it
> connects, in which case you need a mapper to deal with the differences
> between the two structures. If the two structures are identical then you
> don't need a mapper because it is redundant.

That is really not the role of Object Relational Mapping. In this
context, mapping means translating data structures into SQL statements
to store and retrieve such structures from objects.

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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