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Subject: RE: XML design of Database From: "admin" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:26:50 -0400 |
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 ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:16:01 -0400 (EDT) >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 > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > -- Thomas A. Poe, M.D., Director The World Center For Clinical Research 2044 Plumas Street Reno, NV 89509-3708 Phone: 775-829-1799 admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://worldccr.org -- XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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