posted on Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:42 AM by amachanic

More XML Fun!

A couple of new links for your enjoyment:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=97
http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/index.php?p=1487

... That's all for now.

Comments

# Why XML Documents in the Database? @ Wednesday, September 07, 2005 4:50 PM

Well Adam, thanks for pointing both George Ou and John Carrol out. How fair and balanced...

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# re: More XML Fun! @ Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:08 AM

Both are great blogs. George has a very valid point. I tend to agree with John's responce to George's Blog though. XML has it's place and I'm not sure that it is in standardizing of the office documents though part of it makes since, and for now, certainly not in RDBMS storage of data. For now it seems to belong in the data transfer realm more so. Maybe XML experts or developers have a grander vision than us DBA's (being the artsy fartsy types they are :) ).

I can see where that would be enticing for MS to go that route because they could do quite a few things with it. For one, they could, combine all office tools into one interface using XML format to determine what data goes where, but it would seem to me that they might loose $ on licensing going through a single interface. Though they could still charge for each component (pay for the word plug-in, excel plug-in, etc.).

It certainly might make it easier on the developers in the design groups, plus, make the documents usable with other apps besides office (doubt MS would like that though that's how adobe broke into the market), and visa versa if they could make the world standardize on it (which they tend to strongly influence).

But I see where George is going with it in the since that it takes more CPU cycles and disk space to accomidate, but such is technology as it grows.

John's point to the Yukon performance is documented and proven to be true about the XML usage in the database. I dont think it will ever get to the place where it will take the place of an RDBMS because there is too much overhead required. Although, there was a lot of talk about that some years ago.

Both are entertaining views though.

Thanks Adam.

znichter

# XML discussion @ Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:13 AM

Check out Adam Machanic's blog from yesterday about XML opinions.  He has 2 links there pointing...

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