And I thought I was the only person on the planet that sees anything wrong
with XML. The first time I saw an article espousing the benefits of this
great new tool (some idiot calling it the "new ASCII" - doh!) all I could
see was a bloated pig of a format that looked like it spewed forth from the
mind of a juvenile delinquent. That it has made its way into the DBMS
engines shows that people have more computing resources than they have good
sense.
--
Michael D. Long
"robert" <gnuoytr_at_rcn.com> wrote in message
news:da3c2186.0408300407.3eeb365d_at_posting.google.com...
> Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_yahoo.net> wrote in message
> news:<CxGXc.19631$A8.18211_at_edtnps89>...
> ...Sybase sold their soul to Microsoft by
>> giving them what is now SQL Server.
>>
>
> and all of them, near as i can tell, have sold their souls to
> XML Data Storage, thus eviscerating the relational model, and
> taking us back to IMS. i hope they're all Real Proud of themselves.
>
> annoyed and distraught,
> robert
Received on Tue Sep 14 2004 - 21:51:03 CDT
