XML and Databases

[asad]

hello, my question is that what is the benefit of getting any RDBMS data into
an XML file ?. Is this better then displaying data directly from database?
please tell me.
Thanks.
have a good day.

[Marina]

Re: XML and Databases

Typically, no. XML is notoriously slow, especially depending on the number
of records you are going to be looking through.

What's wrong with getting data from the database?

"asad" <asad@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> wrote in message
news:7B2234EF-D88C-4AF7-92C9-9E4763D126F5@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
> hello, my question is that what is the benefit of getting any RDBMS data
> into
> an XML file ?. Is this better then displaying data directly from database?
> please tell me.
> Thanks.
> have a good day.[/color]

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Re: XML and Databases

asad wrote:[color=blue]
> hello, my question is that what is the benefit of getting any RDBMS data into
> an XML file ?. Is this better then displaying data directly from database?[/color]

Much better is RDBMS that supports XML, such as SQL Server 2005.

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Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCAD]

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