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SQL, XML, and the Relational Database Model

Posted by simoniker on from the duke-it-out dept.

Kardamon writes "In an article on DBAzine, Fabian Pascal writes that SQL is not a good representation of the relational model, and is afraid the situation will get worse with XML and XQUERY. An overview of some of the reactions on the positions Pascal and also C.J. Date take on this issue is given in this article over at SearchDatabase.com by Sara Cushman."

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  1. Re:'scuse my ignorance but... by rodgerd · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It gets slightly less slow if you use a stored procedure, but if you do that you have confined yourself to one database vendor. (So much for SQL being a standard.)

    Or use the SQL standard commands for creating hierarchies of data. Might help to have a clue what you're on about.