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   From: bbadour@golden.net   
      
   "Corey Brown"  wrote in message   
   news:8FlBb.6497$Yt2.86@bignews3.bellsouth.net...   
   >   
   > "Alfredo Novoa"  wrote in message   
   > news:e4330f45.0312090304.6a5179b3@posting.google.com...   
   > > Nobody  wrote in message   
   > news:...   
   > > > Relational databases use keys.  Object databases use some sort of   
   > > > pointer to physical storage location.   
   > > >   
   > > > That's all.   
   > > >   
   > >   
   > > Is this a nonsense competition?   
   >   
   >     Alfredo, why don't you explain to us why you think this answer is   
   > nonsense.   
   >     Don't relational databases rely on foreign keys to relate data in one   
   > table row   
   >     to another table row? I'm pretty sure they do and I am also pretty   
   sure   
   > that ODBM   
   >     systems do use direct pointers to relate objects together.   
      
   That's about as useful as observing the difference between cars and   
   airplanes is to note that airplanes use bulkheads and cars use airbags.   
      
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