With the proliferation of XML as a new common data format, the problem of managing XML documents has become more critical. New technologies are now available that allow organizations to better manage ...

On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. XQuery allows you to work in one common ...

Sybase division iAnywhere Solutions introduced on Monday a revamped edition of its embedded database that improves the ability to handle XML-formatted data. The database, called SQL Anywhere, is ...

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...

I have never done any serious SQL design before. Anyways I have to store a hierarchical data structure, similar to a tree in a SQL database.<BR><BR>Right now I simply add a "parent_id" column in each ...

As SQL and XML capabilities converge in the leading relational engines, you might conclude that there’s no future for dedicated XML databases. A year ago, in his keynote at the InfoWorld CTO Forum, ...

The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to ...