Complex Data
Complex data is often characterized by:
- A lack of unique, natural identification.
- A large number of many-to-many relationships.
- Access using traversals.
- Frequent use of type codes such as those found in the relational schema
The discussion of complex data will use the following fragment of a clothing database that represents an XML data structure stored as objects. XML file for this complex data example.
Examples and more explanation can be found below.
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Douglas K Barry
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