June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 28m
English
Some app developers are eschewing SQL for new, open-standards-based data structures written in XML. Why will someone choose this? Relational databases composed with SQL are certainly leveraging a very stable, mature technology, but sometimes data that has multiple indices of relationships is more compact when rendered and stored in XML. This needs to be balanced against the performance in the database tier. Relational databases differentiate between variable types, which means they can provide optimized treatment of those based on whether they are a string, integer, Boolean, or others. XML treats everything like a string of text, so the burden is on the Application Tier to comb over the stored data ...
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