Well list, I think we have a new weekly dead horse to with which to use our
sticks on :)
To answer your question, no, XML is not being added currently to MySQL.
Flat files have some advantages, but have to be implented well to work well,
you can't just open the whole thing and scan through it looking for what you
need. MySQL is fast, very fast. If your current implentation is having no
speed issues, then don't fix what isn't broken. If you are having speed
issues, I would suggest you give us some examples of your table layouts so
that we can see if maybe you have some innefecient key usage.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Coon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: MySQL and XML?
>
> Can anyone offer some insight into the following topic?
>
> I would like to provide web access to search a large database of
> information. Currently, I am using MySQL to do this, and it works great.
> However, this database is almost entirely static, there are virtually no
> inserts or updates done.
>
> For accessing information with this structure, is an RDBM the most
efficient
> way to search through this information? I know Oracle has been modified
to
> use XML files as the database, making queries directly to a flat file
> (although I have not seen it in action).
>
> Does MySQL support anything of this nature, or is anyone working on any
> module along these lines? What is the advantage for using a flat file? I
> am fairly new to this kind of thing, I would like to learn more.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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