As an XML-enabled database, SQL Server only allows you to store XML documents as unstructured objects in the database or to shred the XML data into relational tables.

They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that mission-critical business data that is finding expression in XML format.

IBM’s native XML storage feature “doesn’t add any value,” said Mark Drake, an XML technology manager at Oracle. Viper will also support XQuery for processing XML data, along with standard SQL.

3. XML storage won’t have the same drawbacks that hierarchical/network products did. Hierarchical systems failed because reusing data in multiple apps was too difficult. Today, however, RDBMS vendors ...

IBM and Oracle promise deep XML support in upcoming versions of their databases. With Web services on the rise, Eric Knorr says these solutions could help you get a handle all that XML data.

How are you going to manage and store all that XML data? Simple database? Maybe a not-so-simple database. See why a hierarchical structure designed for XML could be a better choice than a ...