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 ...

Although most pundits agree that XML will become the standard for data storage and retrieval in the next decade, they can’t agree on how it will be implemented. Both theories are based on the ...

Larry Kim, product manager of the XML Products Group at DataDirect Technologies shared the results of a survey the company just commissioned on the long-anticipated XQuery standard. XQuery promises to ...

XQuery is a query language designed to be broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources. Among bigger software players outside of the database realm, none has been faster off the block to ...

DataDirect issued an announcement last week that it has updated its DataDirect XQuery solution, which now supports XQuery functionality in the open source MySQL Enterprise Server relational database ...

The next iteration of the SQL standard was supposed to arrive in 2003. But SQL standardization has always been a glacially slow process, so nobody should be surprised that SQL:2003 — now known as ...

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I examined these four areas in Oracle Database 10g, IBM DB2 Universal Database V8.1, Sybase ASE 12.5.1, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. I tested how they imported and read XML files, their options for ...