• To: "'Ken North'" <kennorth@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Indexing solution for native XML database
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 00:30:53 -0000
• In-reply-to: <000801c5f6c4$da7523a0$1601a8c0@DURANTE>
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> Michael Kay wrote:
> > Relational databases are a very useful tool, there are some 
> jobs they are
> > very good at (mainly the kind of jobs that people used 
> punched cards for 50
> > years ago).
> 
> They do handle numbers and characters quite well, but you're 
> describing the
> strengths of vintage-1980s SQL technology. A lot has changed.
> 
> Many of the SQL platforms have evolved to a universal 
> database model 

I chose my words very carefully. I said "relational databases", and that's
what I was talking about. I wasn't referring to products that were once
relational databases but no longer are.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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