Abstract

This report describes experiences from research experiments mapping
an object-oriented model into the object-relational programming
environment Oracle8.
As a cookbook, the different tasks creating object types, tables and
encapsulation packages for the different object-oriented abstraction
mechanisms are explained. It is shown where Oracle8 supports object
orientation and where it lacks for support.
It is argued that Oracle8 does not give significant improvements for
object storage purposes compared with traditional relational
databases.
Readers should have knowledge of Oracle SQL and PL/SQL concepts
and object-oriented language mechanisms.