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RE: [xml-dev] Indexing solution for native XML database

From: "Michael Kay" <mike@--------.--->
To: "'Ken North'" <kennorth@---------.--->,<xml-dev@-----.---.--->
Date: 12/2/2005 12:31:00 AM
> 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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