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 ...

XML finds a place in enterprise RDBMSes.News Database Vendors Improve XML Handling XML finds a place in enterprise RDBMSes. By Kurt Mackie 12/01/2007 The latest enterprise relational database ...

This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent of the XML data type and XQuery. You still need to construct and shred the XML data before you can use it; this is functional but not simple.

Microsoft Corp. arguably beat IBM out the door with support for XQuery and a native XML data type in SQL Server 2005, which became available in November, while Oracle Corp. boasts of being the ...

SQL Server does not yet support an XML data type or the SQL/XML extensions, but Tom Rizzo, SQL Server group product manager at Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, says that Yukon, due in 2004, will.

XML DB will add support for XML Schema definition, a World Wide Web Consortium standard for defining XML data types. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., will use SQLx as the underlying querying ...

Even better, these examples show how to pass XML data to stored procedures, and how they can be made to read single or multiple sets of criteria easily, using only a few lines of TSQL.

Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and Microsoft account for the vast majority of all database software licenses, says Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna. Oracle accounts for 35 percent of the market with its Linux, ...