[Info-vax] C99 updates to CRTL

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/31/2019 9:13 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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).

Most do unless you are an internet startup.

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

JSON reduces size dramatically, but you loose namespaces and
schema validation.

Arne