Comments on: Flexible Schemas: When to Persist Data in XML Instead of Relational http://nativexmldatabase.com/2008/09/26/flexible-schemas-when-to-persist-data-in-xml-instead-of-relational/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:46:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Conor O'Mahony http://nativexmldatabase.com/2008/09/26/flexible-schemas-when-to-persist-data-in-xml-instead-of-relational/#comment-172 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:54:56 +0000 http://purexml.wordpress.com/?p=128#comment-172 Hi Brian,

I’ll follow up with you off-line. By the way, have you seen the DB2 pureXML Wiki. It has a lot of articles related to implementation. The list of articles may be a little overwhelming. A good place to start is with these getting started articles.

]]> By: Brian Boberg http://nativexmldatabase.com/2008/09/26/flexible-schemas-when-to-persist-data-in-xml-instead-of-relational/#comment-169 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:08:41 +0000 http://purexml.wordpress.com/?p=128#comment-169 Conor:

Thanks for the articles on companies or business situations that have implemented DB2′s XML features. I would appreciate more on this topic since the company I work for is about to upgrade to DB2 V9 on z/OS. The DBAs in the department where I work are quite apprehensive concerning implementing the XML data type in our databases. Management is looking for recommendations on how to utilize this new feature. Articles which provide more detail on the implementation and use of XML within DB2 would be most desirable.

We currently have a few situations where we store XML in a VARCHAR column. Obviously, this lacks the ability to index on certain XML elements and requires reading the entire XML tree structure each time it is read.

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