Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: [xml-dev] Indexing solution for native XML database [Thread Next] RE: [xml-dev] Indexing solution for native XML databaseTo: "'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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