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RE: XML design of Database
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- Subject: RE: XML design of Database
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- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:26:50 -0400
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Hi, Liam: What's that mean, "forthcoming"? Hurry your book up, would you? Ya haveta watch these books, cause they tend to wander around. Get it out there, we're ready and waiting. Thanks, Tom
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From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@interlog.com>
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:16:01 -0400 (EDT)
>Vun Kannon, David <dvunkannon@kpmg.com> 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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