Re: [xml-dev] Indexing solution for native XML database

["Ken North" <kennorth@sbcglobal.net>]

> > Sure, a relational database might not be the best fit for a given
> > hierarchical structure. But for other cases the fit may be as good or
> > better than any other database....

Joe Celko's article about the adjacency list approach for processing hierarchies
with SQL:
http://www.sqlsummit.com/AdjacencyList.htm

This isn't an XML-specific approach and it doesn't use the XML type of Oracle
10g or Microsoft SQL Server.



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