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These are exciting Mainframe times: SOA, Business Integration, virtualization and other Enterprise Strategies are putting the mainframe back where it belongs, at the heart of corporate IT systems. This blog will keep you abreast of the latest news and opinions, recommend key articles, white papers etc.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

DB2 Viper is imminent, so have a look at XQUERY !

DB2 Viper is round the corner and you now can even test drive it - see information at the IBM site http://www-306.ibm.com/db2/viper/ . So now may be the time to teach some old dogs some new tricks - because DB2 Viper will manage XML as well as conventional relational data - and you will be able to query the XML with XQUERY or SQL.

For a good introduction to XQUERY go to http://www.w3schools.com/xquery/default.asp for an informative tutorial. And IBM has written and SQL/XML article on how to query XML Data with SQL at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0603saracco2/

The native XML support in DB2 Viper looks good for the SOA and Business Integration bandwagon and things will start to pick up pace once its out of beta. I for one feel this is a major development and will reposition IBM favourably against its major rivals - particularly ORACLE. Watch this space.

Bill H 2006
http://www.mainframe-upgrade.com/

posted by William Hoffman @ 4:03 PM

1 Comments:

At 7:53 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

An easy way to learn xquery is to read "learn XQuery in 10 Minutes", an XQuery Tutorial written by Dr. Michael Kay from the W3C.

 

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