MySQL moves forward (IT-Director)

MySQL moves forward (IT-Director)

Posted May 7, 2003 13:45 UTC (Wed) by Wol (guest, #4433)
Parent article: MySQL moves forward (IT-Director)

And if the market worked on the basis of "the best tool for the job" it would ditch relational and switch to that 30-yr-old technology that's often called "post-relational".

As far as data is concerned, the underlying concepts between Pick and XML are near as dammit identical - give me an XML data record and I could transform it into a Pick record with almost no effort whatsoever. And ask me for Pick data in XML format and again - transform with no effort whatsoever.

While XML may be crap for data storage (too verbose, pain to search, etc etc), put XML into Pick and you've got 30 years worth of development that mnakes handling the data ABSOLUTELY TRIVIAL :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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