Re: How to create a DBMS from scratch?

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:45:29 +0000, Rob Tweed <rtweed_at_imtcons.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Its interesting the way XML has brought back new life into the old
>hierarchical databases,

Interesting, but not a good thing.

This commonality between XML and hierarchical DB's isn't a validation of the DB, more a condemnation of XML's rigidly tree-structured data model. Received on Thu Nov 28 2002 - 00:08:23 CET