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December 2004 - Posts

Commenting some XQuery discussions on XML-DEV

I finally found time to catch up on some XML-DEV XQuery discussions and post some explanations and statements .
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Some Tsunami/Quake Disaster Relief.

I have a list of resources (some suggestions for donations and some online resources) to help in the Tsunami/Quake Disaster Relief. If you have not already done so, please help by donating money or time and get your employer to match it.
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Late XML 2004 Trip report and links to my XML 2004 presentation

It has been more than a month already, since I attended the XML 2004 Conference in Washington DC. My presentation on XQuery in the context of relational databases was well-attended. Attendees had the unique opportunity to compare the (not too diverging)

XML Support in SQL Server 2005 has no dependency on http.sys

A recent blog post claimed that the native XML support in SQL Server 2005 has a dependency on http.sys and thus is only available on Win 2003 Server or Win XP/SP2. This is incorrect . XML has no such dependency and should be available on all platforms
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The top three reasons why...

... we ship an XQuery subset in SQL Server 2005 when it has been removed from the .Net Framework can be found here .
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SQL Server 2005 CTP XML functionality enhancement (also known as the SQL Server XML Christmas presents)

The article provides information about whitespace preservation when parsing XML and gives an outlook of what to look forward to in Beta3 in the XML space...
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The Microsoft XML Team resurfaces in the blogosphere

The XML Team has its own blog and Mike Champion is managing it. ( More ... )

Does IBM really move the database goalposts?

I posted a reply to Philip Howard's article for The Register on the recent announcement for the new XML support in an upcoming IBM database release .
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