Before I forget, hereby on my “notepad”, a small reminder for me and others that…
Category: XMLDB
Today I discovered a web page that has some cool whitepapers and thesis of Mr. Martin Necasky. Besides the work he is doing regarding conceptual modeling for XML, he also wrote a book about this topic called “Conceptual Modeling for XML” in which he, among others, discusses his own conceptual model for XML called XSEM that extends the Entity-Relationship model, he and Ms Irena Mlynkova, wrote a 13 page brief discussion on “The Current Support of XML by the ‘Big Three'” (March 2009 – Oracle 11g, IBM DB2 9, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008).
Some remarks (about Oracle only of course) on this brave attempt (no seriously you can read that it isn’t copy paste work – so a lot of work in testing was probably involved in putting this to paper)…
Just here as a small side note, some steps to do a XMLDB clean installation without other more unnecessary functionality. Depending on using the Protocol Server or not, also take into account database parameter settings like SHARED_SERVERS (eg. value=5), JAVA_POOL (XQuery and other support), PGA_AGGREGATED_TARGET (DOM validation), SGA_TARGET or MEMORY_TARGET, LARGE_POOL (shared server). My advise would be to not use automatic memory wizards while using XML DB. Although I don’t have a good example anymore at hand, I have seen no or to late response of the database while working with statements that needed a lot of DOM validation in memory. If possible use unicode characterset for your database, AL32UTF8, to avoid future issues within your environment regarding NLS conversion issues.