[thelist] worldusa.com sucks

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Mon Apr 3 18:40:00 2000


Matt Warden wrote:

> <tip>
> Let's say you have a database table that holds... oh... how about a
> shopping cart. You could create a table to relate a shopping cart to
> shopping cart items (one to many). Or you could use a makeshi(f)t data
> cube like structure using XML. Oh, let's say you have this in your
>
> .....
>
> That said, let me say that I haven't actually used this in a live
> environment, but it seems like it would work well, provided that the
> database could handle large strings of XML for big, many-itemed carts.
> 
> </tip>

BTW - I'm doing this already. Works sweet!!! Great minds think alike.

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Anthony Baratta