INDUSTRY AND PRACTICE: An Empirical Investigation of the Effectiveness of Object-Oriented Database Design

This study investigated, in an experimental setting, the understanding and use of object-oriented database design concepts in designing databases. There are many varieties of object-oriented database design techniques and we chose the methodology suggested by Kroenke (1988) for use in the class. This method is expected to simplify the development of database and database applications tremendously (Kroenke, 1988). Through the market for object-oriented database systems is growing, a survey of the literature (in 1992) revealed no empirical investigation of the usefulness of object-oriented database design concepts in organizations or in classrooms.