What would the advantages be of using a document management system over a relational database management system

That doesn't sound like an either/or question to me. Document Management Systems typically use an RDBMS under the hood. They also typically integrate with an indexing/search tool as well. Perhaps you're asking about the merits of an off-the-shelf DMS package versus a roll-your-own custom built solution?

And no DMS can protect against a user sending out the wrong version of a document. You can make a system foolproof but you can't make it damn-fool proof :-)

Nothing is fool proof. Fools are just too damn ingenious.....

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And of the several document management systems I've seen, none were based on relational databases. Not that it matters or anything though. The formats I've seen: Domino, INSCI, BerkeleyDB. But then that's not an interesting answer anyway. The point to DM is all the meta data associated with the documents and you can store that however you prefer.

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