LOS ANGELES — Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference 2003 here on Tuesday will discuss intentions to add an XML data type to its SQL Server database, with the Yukon release of the product ...

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, ...

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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 ...