The XPath and XSLT techniques I mentioned last week will become as fundamental to this generation of developers as SQL was to the last. Likewise XQuery, the query language for XML data that’s finally ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

A research staff member at IBM's Almaden Center in San Jose, Calif., Chamberlin and Ted Codd invented SQL, the language that became the standard for relational databases. First described in a paper ...

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 ...

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 ...

SQL Server Reporting Services is fast becoming the mainstay for custom reporting in Microsoft-based shops. Connecting to relational tables, views, and procedures is easy and productive, and with ...

I want to convert the database definition of an existing SQL database into an XML schema, so I can use the schema with some model-driven development tools to create a new distributed application that ...

When the Classwell Learning Group began building a database of online lesson plans and other information for teachers, it needed to store and access content ranging from word processing files to copy ...