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Large invoice database structure and rendering
Our client has a MS SQL database that has 1 million customer invoice records in it. Using the database, our client wants its customers to be able to log into a frontend web site and then be able to ...
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Design: Mixed XML / Relational or Pure Relational?
Is it acceptable to model a very complex object graph using XML in the database, but leave the rest of a system in relational tables?
I'd like to gauge opinion on this as I've hit a bit of a ...
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Using XML as data storage
I was thinking about the XML format and the following quote:
“XML is not a database. It was never meant to be a database. It is never going to be a database. Relational databases are proven ...
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Are XML Schemas bad for constantly evolving file formats?
I'm struggling with a client-server project where I have Java apps out on the Internet that store data to a backend server. The format of this data is well-defined, but the project is constantly ...
