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One time I saw a database, with a single table, with a single text column that contained the old database.
by cntlzw 9y ago
One time I saw a database, with a single table, with a single text column that contained the old database.
- ishi 9y agoIt's databases all the way down...
- shrikant 9y agoThis sounds similar to what I saw at a client a few years back. All XML responses from a REST API were inserted into a single VARCHAR(MAX) column (one row per response, but a response could have multiple "records") in a SQL Server database. All interaction with this was through a byzantine web of XPath expressions using the severely neutered dialect of XQuery that shipped with SQL Server 2008. Apologies for the mini-rant, your comment appears to have triggered some painful memories.