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 ...

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 ...

I blogged previously on the ease of use of GroovySql, which is Groovy‘s easy-to-use JDBC-based data access approach. In another blog post, I covered the utility of OracleXMLQuery, a class which easily ...

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 ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

At its professional Developers Conference this week, Microsoft Corp. quietly revealed an updated version of its SQLXML Web release add-on for the SQL Server 2000 database. All of the major database ...

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 ...