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 I couldn't let this go by without at least a small comment. (If you look at the signature block at the end of this message, you'll understand why.) Part 14 of the SQL standard, called SQL/XML, provides the ability to use a relational database system for native XML storage and management (that is, not "shredded" into many tables/columns). It is true that, using only the facilities described in SQL/XML, top-level queries are inherently SQL queries, but the use of XQuery from SQL is fully standardized. Happily, the technology has been implemented in the major SQL implementations, although not all of them implement all of the SQL/XML features. Although I believe that the product made by my employer has the most complete implementation, I would not claim to be an expert on what products made by our competitors (or by open source efforts) do or do not implement. At least some SQL systems (and Oracle's is among them) also provide pure XQuery access to XML data stored in the relational store. I admit that I'm prejudiced, but (unlike Mike) SQL/XML would be among my first choices. Also among those first choices would be native XQuery (and even XSLT) access to XML data persisted in an SQL system. I agree with Mike that very small quantities of data, such as 11MB, in-memory management is probably ideal, but with the restrictions that Mike mentioned. If you need transactional control over your data, isolation among multiple concurrent updaters, etc., then a real (relational, XML, OO, etc.) database is justified. Hope this helps, Jim At 4/26/2007 09:05 AM, Michael Kay wrote: Come to think of it, you didn't mention whether there was any characteristic of the data that means you can't store it in a relational database. (I tend to forget about ancient technologies but they still work...) Jim Melton --- Editor of ISO/IEC 9075-* (SQL) Phone: +1.801.942.0144 Co-Chair, W3C XML Query WG; F&O (etc.) editor Fax : +1.801.942.3345 Oracle Corporation Oracle Email: jim dot melton at oracle dot com 1930 Viscounti Drive Standards email: jim dot melton at acm dot org Sandy, UT 84093-1063 USA Personal email: jim at melton dot name ======================================================================== = Facts are facts. But any opinions expressed are the opinions = = only of myself and may or may not reflect the opinions of anybody = = else with whom I may or may not have discussed the issues at hand. = ======================================================================== 
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