Sean Grimaldi WebLogSean Grimaldi Longhorn bookWhy WinFS schema are not XSD schema , IMHO.- April 27, 2004 After Dare set me straight with XML, I have been browsing his posts, where I came across this: http:www.25hoursaday.comweblogPermaLink.aspxguid=d0b398f5-9343-4f91-8e1c-340c5a6669e2 . I was especially interested in this post because it involved WinFS schema in the Longhorn SDK, which is a topic I have explored in some depth. WinFS defines a unique XML grammar for describing its schema. WinFS schemas are not equivalent to the widely accepted W3C standards body&8217;s XML Schema...http://blogs.msdn.com/seangrimaldi/archive/2004/04/27/121565.aspx What makes a database a database and not just a data store- April 12, 2004 I am sitting in the ridiculously nice Seattle weather sipping a local brew watching The Patriot, get this a decent movie starring Mel Gibson, and started thinking about databases and data stores in a gereral high level of abstraction that encompasses Sybase, Oracle, Yukon, and WinFS. I disappointingly could not abstract much above the standard relational database stuff that came out of the 70s with the competition between IBM's System R and Berkeley's Ingres. (Is Berkeley the...http://blogs.msdn.com/seangrimaldi/archive/2004/04/11/111390.aspx |