delimited/separated structures of string data (was: Wishing trolls away)
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:24:55 +0200
Message-ID: <40a75d9b$0$568$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
> Mikito Harakiri wrote:
[snip]
>>So Pick is dead. Get over it.
>
> That's the type of logic I like to see. But perhaps you are right that
> there is no more use for tag-delimited nested structures of string data (aka
> PICK). smiles. --dawn
:-)
Ah! So that what PICK is about.
Is that just PICK or MV in general?
There is a *lot* of delimited/separated structures of
string data floating around in(as you are well aware).
It's easy to program - I've seen a lot of roll-your-own
(RYO) formats in use.
This raises two more questons.
The obvious question would be:
Another, to me more interesting, question is:
What general purpose - so not for instance, SWIFT -
delimited/separated formats do we have
in use in the immediate vicinity of databases?
Advantages, drawbacks, gotcha's, criteria?
- DBMS-specific query result sets (what standards do we have here?)
- ODBC/JDBC query result sets (?)
- RYO
- CSV
- DCF
- SGML
- XML ... ?
Anybody? Received on Sun May 16 2004 - 14:24:55 CEST