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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. Complete coincidence I'm sure by ShootThemLater · · Score: 0, Troll
    Let's see... an article the pretty much rips into someone who is "one of IBM's representatives in the W3C XML Query Working Group", "author of two books on the DB2 database system" and "a staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center".

    At the foot of the page, we have a "sponsored by Oracle" graphic.

    I'm sure those two things are entirely unrelated.

  2. Re:Isn't XML semi-object oriented? by dcam · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm confused. I heard the words "XML" and "database" in the one sentence. Then I read "good" and realised you don't know what you are talking about.

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