Why You Don't Need to Throw Away Your RDBMS
People often come up to me on the street and say, “Tell me, Dan, if I decide to build XML-based systems, what happens to my relational database?” A common misconception is that XML, as a new way of thinking about and representing data, means an end to the relational database management system (RDBMS) as we know it. Well, don't throw away your relational database just yet. XML is a way to format and bring order to data. By mating the power of XML with the immense and already well-understood power of SQL-based relational database systems, you get the best of both worlds. In the following chapters, I'll discuss some approaches to building this bridge between XML and your good old relational database.
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