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Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
The Den Mother of County Music
Nice obit of June Carter Cash.
June Carter was not just Johnny Cash's wife and sometime singing partner. She was also the daughter of Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family, the first major recording stars and foremost progenitors of Southeastern country/folk music. She was the sister of Helen and Anita Carter, with whom she continued the family act long after the first generation was gone. She was the mother of Carlene Carter, her greatest gift to country rock, and the stepmother, mother-in-law, and/or den mother of Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Nick Lowe, Marty Stuart, Kris Kristofferson, and many other seminal musicians of the '60s, '70s, and '80s. She was a stellar songwriter ("Ring of Fire"); an author of unsurprising skill and heart; an actress of sometimes uncanny accuracy (The Apostle); and a comedienne both instinctive and studied. And of course, she was a singer. In her private time, she ran a clan and several households, read voraciously, and brought joy and prosperity to Wal-Marts, boutiques, and fine antique emporia all over creation.
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Zend: From Database to XML the Easy Way. Over on Zend this morning, there's a new piece for those XML-heads out there looking for a way to pull data out of a database and make a handy-dany XML file out of the information.
[PHPDeveloper.org]
An interesting piece; producing XML from a database can be tricky. It's easy if you just have one table, as this piece shows. But it's much tougher with one-to-many relationships. In this piece, the author resorts to multiple queries to get the "many" rows. This works, and is adaptable, but means that a lot more queries are performed by the database. I have tried, but it's tough to come up with a generic solution that allows on a single, inner join query, to produce the XML. This would be much more efficient, and let the database engine figure out how to optimize the query. With its FOR XML clause, Microsoft's SQL Server has a big edge over mySQL (the two databases I know).
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