Re: Modeling Data for XML instead of SQL-DBMS

From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:19:47 GMT
Message-ID: <Tm_0h.2848$dx4.2120_at_trndny05>


"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1162081922.016958.251670_at_b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> mAsterdam wrote:
>
> > The links are not (logical/user/real) data
>
> They are identifiers.

No, they aren't. They are locators. Using locators as if they were identifiers is at the heart of what makes graph based databases less flexible than relational databases. Received on Sun Oct 29 2006 - 10:19:47 CET

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