Steve Miller wrote:

> I am working on an application that has object data mapped to tables.
> The mapping was done many years ago, before the likes of Hibernate came
> along. It basically maps a class to a table. Object properties with
> multiple values get their own tables. There are other interesting
> mappings, but that's the overall concept.
>
> We have a guy that has been doing research on an alternate approach.
> He's storing the object data in an XML string. The XML string is stored
> in the only field of a table. The table is the only one in the system.
> He's reporting huge performance increases with this approach.
>
> Have any of you heard of anything like this? What do you see are the
> pros and cons of such an approach?
>
> Steve Miller
> Language Software Development
> SIL International
>

Besides what Fidel already said....

Only one field ? No indexed searches as far as I can see...

Does not sounds good to me.

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br