[Info-vax] C99 updates to CRTL

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-07-31, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2019-08-01 00:29:04 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>
>> How well do the current crop of NoSQL databases handle resizing fields 
>> in a record and adding fields to a record without having to rebuild 
>> programs or having to make source code changes to allow programs to 
>> continue using the existing data ?
>
> Donno about NoSQL off-hand, but SQLite and other SQL environments 
> handle that with aplomb.  Which is one of the reasons I've been using 
> SQLite as a data store.  That and JSON/YAML work pretty well here, too. 
>  Depending on the app requirements.
>

Yes, I'm well familiar with how SQL environments handle this (and I use
that ability all the time).

With regards to JSON, I do find it to be a much better data transfer
mechanism than XML is (for example).

Simon.

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