Re: XML vs. databases

From: Richard Wheeldon <richard_at_rswheeldon.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:43:52 +0100
Message-ID: <3B458858.1CFB@rswheeldon.com>

None wrote:
> As more and more people demand XML being used in their database
> projects, there are a few things I don't get. How do you delete or
> update using XML?

With great difficuly. Using XML files as a database is a very stupid idea, imho. XML has its uses, but trying to replace a traditional relational database is not one of them.

> What are some other problems you have seen when integrating databases
> and XML?

The biggest problem is typing. Databases support concepts such as dates, times, numbers, etc. xml doesn't.

Xml also doesn't support any constraint checking internally.

Thus you can have a valid xml wrt a dtd and still not know whether the data makes sense,

Richard Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 04:43:52 CDT