IBM and Microsoft are also taking steps to make unstructured XML data fit as comfortably as traditional structured data in their respective data management systems.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By placing the following code in the form_load event of a Windows application, the customer columns (XML elements) will be displayed in a datagrid using ADO.NET. Dim ds As New System.Data.DataSet ...

XML Beans tries to provide a ''best of both worlds'' solution. Instead of ''force-fitting,'' it leaves XML unchanged and gives a Java view of that XML data, without loss of information. This is as ...

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 ...