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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you could do one thing to improve integration and automate processes with customers and business partners, it would be to implement XML, which has become the standard for exchanging information ...

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 ...

The surge in XML data is pushing companies to create fresh information architectures. The surge in XML data – and in Web services to access it – are forcing companies to create new information ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an XML database? XML databases use XML to model and query data. XML is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several SQL-to-XML conversion and translation tools are available. The Enterprise and Professional versions of the XMLSpy products from Altova.com can produce an XML schema from a relational database.

Every decade seems to have its database. During the 1990s, the relational database became the principal data environment, its ease of use and tabular arrangement making it a natural for the growing ...