Labels:book | bulletin board | cell phone | daily | fence | hakham | laptop | person | railing | sky OCR: 620 SECTION CHAPTER 11 What's an object database? An object database also referred to as an object- -oriented database stores data as objects, which can be grouped into classes and defined by attributes and methods. The Programming chapter covers object -oriented terminology in detail; but in the context of object databases, class defines a group of objects by specifying the attributes and methods these objects share. The attributes for an object are equivalent to fields in a relational data- base method is any behavior that an object is capable of performing. For example the Vintage Music Shop has to keep track of objects that represent customer orders. To set up an object database for this task, the first step would be to define class called Orders that can hold data such FIGURE 11-15 as ...
