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Re:URLs are the uniform way to locate resources by rbanffy on Monday May 24, 2010 @09:45AM (#1374630)
> because oracle's url connection string would be completely different from mysql, and still different from postgres

And that makes sense. At least a little. Because the way you use to locate a resource may vary wildly between databases.

And mind you we are only talking about relational ones (the kind JDBC cares about).

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Re:URLs are the uniform way to locate resources by vsync on Monday May 24, 2010 @07:53PM (#1376014)
> And mind you we are only talking about relational ones (the kind JDBC cares about).

It gets even more fun with Java EE where you can have arbitrary resource adapters. So then you have even non-SQL naming conventions to map within your application server.

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