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 ...

With Web services now becoming a viable technology, enterprises are beginning to see real return on investment from this technology. Web services represent a less invasive, less costly, and ...

Ten years is a long time in IT. But in the world of database systems, a ten year old technology is barely out of kindergarten. Relational databases took a decade to move from the labs to ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for exchanging corporate data via structured documents--whether internally, with business partners, or via public ...

A database that stores XML documents. There are two types. The first is the "XML-enabled database," which is a relational or object-oriented database that has been extended to hold XML data. In this ...

Dare you question that we're heading for an XML world? For conclusive evidence, look no further than the staid, slow-moving world of relational database management, which is embracing XML as its own.

I'm wondering if anyone here has experience working with a native XML database, and at the same time I'm looking for a sanity check on my idea. There are many threads like this, but this one is mine.

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eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. As XML becomes an increasingly important data interchange ...