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RE: XML design of Database

Subject: RE: XML design of Database
From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:16:01 -0400 (EDT)
RE: XML design of Database
Vun Kannon, David <dvunkannon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andreas' presentation is clear on some things, not on others.
> 
> XML as normalised relational tables means table per element, not table per
> nesting level.

Er, there is no one true definition, folks :-)

One table per document is also fine, and for some applications wil
give a thousand-fold or more performance improvement.
When you've spent an hour waiting for a document to be served by
a million-dollar SPARC running Oracle, you know that the "obvious"
relational schema isn't always the most appropriate.

In my book (forthcoming) on the subject, I actually seggest that
if you have XML documents, you store them outside a database
altogether in many situations, using a relational database for
metadata such as author's name, and sometimes for extracted data
such as a list of parts.

Lee

-- 
Liam Quin, Barefoot Computing, Toronto;  The barefoot programmer
Ankh on irc.sorcery.net, http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
co-author, The XML Specification Guide, Wiley Inc.
forthcoming: The Open Source XML Database Toolkit, Wiley, 2000


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