Chapter 7. XML Databases
Relational databases such as Access, SQL Server, and Oracle have many advantages over XML files. These advantages include powerful tools that XML lacks for searching, arranging, grouping, and summarizing data. Relational databases store data in a relatively efficient binary format and use indexes to make searching for particular values fast. They give you access to transactions, privileges, and various record locking schemes to help you protect the data.
On the other hand, XML files do have several advantages over relational databases. They are plain text files with a simple intuitive format so they are easy to read and understand. Visual Basic provides methods for loading, manipulating, and saving XML files. Best of ...
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