Reading Questions

What Comes Arounds Goes Around

List 5 key ideas in the 35-year development of data models that significantly advanced the database field.
What are the fundamental contributions of the relational model?
Why do we need XML? Where does the relational model fall short? Is XML simply a replay of history? What are the advantages that XML provides but other data models don't?

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