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mblakele
on July 2, 2009
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No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
I think SQL has its limits too, for example in hierarchical use cases. While it is possible to write extremely complicated CONNECT BY clauses in SQL, I would prefer XPath and XQuery for that job.
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