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 ...

The latest enterprise relational database management systems (RDBMSes) from market leaders IBM Corp., Microsoft and Oracle Corp. all boast improved XML-handling capabilities. XML figured prominently ...

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, ...

As SQL and XML capabilities converge in the leading relational engines, you might conclude that there’s no future for dedicated XML databases. A year ago, in his keynote at the InfoWorld CTO Forum, ...

Most professional business programmers have found themselves on the receiving end of more than a few crazy requirement or design documents at least once in their careers. These stoic programmers grind ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared in our sister publication, Builder Australia, as part of the Ask Chuck column. I want to create a Windows Application that allows a user to enter/edit/access data that ...