Re: Oracle and PICK

In message <nB8gc.74564$fs3.4895815_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be>, Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> writes
>are applying / extending techniques that were already known from
>relational research. This suggests that even if you have data that has
>a typical XML structure and is accessed in a typical XML way (XPath
>expressions) the relational model is very often still an excellent
>choice for your underlying logical data model.

Agreed. But that's one of the reasons I dislike relational, actually :-) It seeks to divorce the logical from the physical.

With Pick, I let the real world dictate the physical data structure. I then impose relational theory over it. The relational model as implemented divorces the real world from the physical data structure by imposing set theory as a wall between the two :-( That is a MAJOR failing imho!

Cheers,
Wol

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