Object Oriented? Or Not?
Perhaps the way I raised this question would be peculiar for you as I'm a newbie!
I'm willing to use oracle object oriented programing for my applications, and some senior people(work in my organization) told me that Object oriented database concept is failed in the industry. As a reason they say that; even if Object oriented databases solved some problems people had with relational databases, still Object oriented databases are failed to facilitate most of the advantages of relational databases. It's somewhat chaotic for me, as I'm new to PL developments.
They didn't mention any specific reason; but just told me that relational databases perform well and faster than object oriented databases, and for business logic, object oriented databases has some accuracy issues.
But I'm not ready to accept that it will be useless to learn 'Oracle Object Oriented Programing' or 'Object Oriented Database Concept' would be failed.
So I need to know,
1. Will it be useless to learn & use 'OOP' techniques when learning PL/SQL programing?
2. Is there any disadvantage of using 'OOP' with oracle? (If there is any, please let me know if you have time for that).
Especially, (The most pleasing answer I would like to hear from you ;-) )
3. If Object Oriented Databases concept is better and something that a "PL/SQL" developer must learn; please let me know that.
Please provide me a link if you can, which would help me to learn why should we use 'OOP' with oracle (if Object oriented database is better than Relational database)