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Re: SQL 2k or XML?

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• Subject: Re: SQL 2k or XML?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:41:10 -0400
• In-reply-to: <951967FCF5C4D211B0610008C75D2AA11224A657@c...>

Travis Falls writes:
> I am designing a site in asp.net (VB.net), and I am storing bios for
> bands, with one picture, shopping personal information on the
> subscribers of the site, songs (MP3) and a few other things that I
> can't think of.  I am at a loss though in designing it though, I
> don't know if I should store the info in XML files and then put meta
> data in the database, or put everything in a sql base, ect any
> suggestions for designing a site in this fashion is greatly
> appreciated.

I think the answer is probably going to be "it depends".

How complex are the bios?  Are you writing them in HTML, or some flavor
of a "Band Markup Language"?

It sounds like a project that I would have conventionally done with a
relational database, but it could also be a good way to familiarize
yourself with XML-based Web development, depending on how large or
mission-critical it is.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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