Re: What is the logic of storing XML in a Database?
Date: 27 Mar 2007 12:45:22 -0700
Message-ID: <1175024722.373857.247510_at_l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 27, 3:35 pm, "David Cressey" <cresse..._at_verizon.net> wrote:
> "Daniel" <danielapar..._at_gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1175023534.762441.188210_at_y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Mar 27, 1:34 pm, "Aloha Kakuikanu" <aloha.kakuik..._at_yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > If "transport" and "messages" are merely implementation details of
> > > some distributed database application,
>
> > But of course they're not, they have nothing really to do with
> > distributed database application, nor is it desirable that they
> > should. Consequently they have nothing really to do with dbms theory.
>
> There are three things you can do with data: process it, store it, and
> transport it.
> These three are all interrelated.
>
But they're not governed by the same considerations. The fact that
data storage benefits from normalization, for example, doesn't mean
that transport formats benefit from normalization.
Regards,
Daniel Parker
Received on Tue Mar 27 2007 - 21:45:22 CEST