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On Apr 4, 2005 7:53 PM, david.lyon@c... <david.lyon@c...> wrote: > Quoting Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>: > > > David Lyon wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:46 am, Ronald Bourret wrote: <snip/> > > > > > That would allow you to store it as XML and query it without > > having to break out fields for storage in relational columns. > > Maybe... > > but I like sql databases like mysql, oracle, db2, sql-server etc.. Umm, don't know about mysql but the rest all support "native" XML in some form or other... > while I > might be a critical of isam inspired accounting system designs.. to me, sql is > a perfect solution to making that ugly old world of isam go away, or at least > be hidden from view. > > Doing inventory purely in xml is not nice. I can't see any easy way to make that > happen. > > No matter how many good ideas there are, it's still a swamp... and it's always > going to be a swamp... I can't see any way past that no matter how many nice > walkways somebody wants to install... This particular swamp might get filled in and drained: someday, relatively soon now, at least one of those vendours you list may give you xQuery complete with update support... -- Peter Hunsberger
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