On 2007-03-26, Karen Hill <karen_hill22_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I see people putting XML documents in databases. Why do they do this,
> what is the logic behind it? Why not just put the data into tables?
> Why are the standards committees going along with this (XML SQL/
> MED)? Why don't people just use tables to store the data thusly:
The answer is that it enables people to store data in a badly structured
format without having to justify that to their DBA.
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Received on Tue Mar 27 2007 - 06:52:26 CDT
