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 ...

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XQuery is a query language designed to be broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources. Among bigger software players outside of the database realm, none has been faster off the block to ...

The next iteration of the SQL standard was supposed to arrive in 2003. But SQL standardization has always been a glacially slow process, so nobody should be surprised that SQL:2003 — now known as ...

DataDirect issued an announcement last week that it has updated its DataDirect XQuery solution, which now supports XQuery functionality in the open source MySQL Enterprise Server relational database ...

updates and a number of other features. For the complete list of new features please visit Multi-platform Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48.00 Multi-platform Professional license costs USD ...

The basic tenet of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to provide loose-coupling for different applications. It is thus imperative that data is produced by and for these applications, and that ...