Re: How to store a directory info into a database?

AV wrote:
> simples option:
>
> structure > xml > string > blob
>
> no headache about mapping, but no simple
> [elements] search possibilities...

Yuck!

What's the point of using a database at all to do the above? You are not using any database capabilites at all. You could do the same by storing the information to a flat file.

I see a very interesting future:
Relational database users that try to store objects will serialize (or XMLize) everything to blobs.
...just to fulfill the only pattern that makes management happy: "Yeah, we use Oracle to store our data."

Good luck!

There are other products that love tree structures.

Kind regards,
Carl

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Carl Rosenberger
db4o - database for objects - http://www.db4o.com