I have read into this a bit, and a lot of it seems very complex. I have to explain to my boss why we want to use a database rather than an xml file. The director of mis recommended the using of a database, and I am the web developer so I have to tell the boss why we should do this. I don’t know much about xml and all the cool features you can use, but from my understanding databases are the way to go in order to pull and export data, especially when using large amounts of data. I would say our site is medium sized. Does anyone have any other simple suggestions or answers as to why using a database is an advantage over using an XML file, and also any disadvantages or advantages of using either of these. Thank you, I appreciate it.