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Simplify Apps Using XML With PHP and DB2

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the jewels-of-web-knowledge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IBM DeveloperWorks has an article from a little while back that takes a look at the impact of schema evolution on the application. The narrative walks the reader through a usage scenario to illustrate the ease of setting up a PHP environment and integrating DB2 native XML functionality with PHP applications including web services written in PHP and XQuery."

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  1. summary of article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can summarize it as: "Apps are simpler if the DBMS directly supports the data types you're using."

    Yeah, NO SHIT. You mean there's data out there that's not INT or CHAR?

    Codd is rolling in his grave. 30+ years since he developed the relational model, and still nobody's bothered implementing it.