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

[Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@gmail.com>]

On 11/29/05, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
> > Joe Celko's article about the adjacency list approach for
> > processing hierarchies
> > with SQL:
> > http://www.sqlsummit.com/AdjacencyList.htm
>
> Celko often writes about this approach to prove that it can be done, but it
> just goes to convince me that it shouldn't be done.
>

Ok, I'll bite: care to explain?  Is it just the simple forms of
adjacency list you don't like or all nested set approaches?

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Peter Hunsberger