This data is usually in the form of XML documents and their associated Document Type Definitions (DTDs) or XML Schemas. Because XML data lends itself to a hierarchical structure rather than a ...

The structured method allows you to store XML data inside the database and preserve the hierarchy of the data. Structured storage, also known as “native XML” storage, is what every vendor is ...

XML data is based on a hierarchical structure of elements and attributes, which can represent complex and nested data. However, this also means that XML data can be verbose, ...

Hess agrees: “An object database stores data in hierarchical form; this enables it to handle all the classes and inheritance properties of objects. Now XML documents are themselves hierarchical ...

A hierarchical XML (eXtensible Markup Language) database is being developed by the New Millennium Program to assist in technology return on investment (ROI) analysis and technology portfolio ...

XML, and do it at a full hierarchical level that utilizes the hierarchical semantics in the data. This inherent hierarchical SQL processing became possible in the SQL-92 standard with the introduction ...

InfoWorldWithout a doubt, XML is fast becoming the lingua franca of business-to-business data exchange. As the use of XML increases, executives and IT managers must begin factoring in the growing ...

Innovations 2006 Analysis: Used to be, friends didn't let friends use stored procedures and triggers. Wisdom was, databases were just those boring, clunky old things used to crunch numbers and ...

With Oracle Corp.'s annual OpenWorld conference on the horizon, database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three - IBM Corp., Oracle, and Microsoft Corp. - are ...

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