At Microsoft TechEd 2004 in San Diego, Microsoft provided further details on its upcoming database release now known as SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named “Yukon”). The software will natively ...

I'm writing with a question that ostensibly relates to my work. In other words, I only want to strip out all of the attributes on my "Element" elements except for "name" and "type". This is merely to ...

I have a SQL Server 2005 table that has an XML type column. This column stores address information, and data on multiple locations can be in this column's XML.<BR><BR>Now, I need to query the ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such ...

In a rare act of cooperation, Oracle and IBM have submitted a joint request for a new specification that will define how Java applications query databases using a proposed language called XQuery. Most ...

IBM and Microsoft submitted testing software to the World Wide Web Consortium standards body intended to promote an XML-based method for querying databases, or XQuery. Today database programmers pull ...

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