SanDroid (3/18/2011)

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Tom.Thomson (3/17/2011)

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Actually, in the context of a RDBMS, it sounds appallingly uncool - back to the bad old days of the network or heriarchical database models (which would have been a sensible approach to handling XML in an RDBMS, but someone had to reinvent the wheel, didn't they, and forgot it should have no sharp corners) or, even worse, forward to the long promised but never yet delivered working nontrivial OODBMS.

Tom,

I ask this question to anyone that talks about OODBMS vs RDBMS.

Define the differance in schema of a database on a OODBMS from that of a RDBMS database that is fully ACID and Normalized.

BTW: Please re-read the lastest information on Database Normalization and the 5th Normal Form before answering.

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