Michael Rys

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8/6/2021

Exploring Big Data and Data Lakes with U-SQL

XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0, and XSLT 2.0 are in REALLY Last Call

A week ago (on April 4th), the W3C announced that XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0, and XSLT 2.0 went into Last...

Author: mrys Date: 04/12/2005

Material for my MSDN WebCast "Managing XML Data on the Database with SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005"

You can get the WebCast recording and copies of the slides from the MSDN website (registration...

Author: mrys Date: 04/12/2005

Using the XQuery methods in CHECK constraints

In a recent weblog posting, I outlined how you can use XQuery expressions inside CHECK constraints....

Author: mrys Date: 04/01/2005

Some upcoming events on XML, SQL Server and databases where I will be speaking

Over the next couple of months, I will be speaking/presenting at a couple of occasions. MSDN SQL...

Author: mrys Date: 04/01/2005

How to check for the XML document constraint

During a recent newsgroup exchange, we discussed how to constrain an untyped XML data type to be a...

Author: mrys Date: 03/04/2005

StylusStudio interviews me

StylusStudio, in their ongoing series of interviews interviewed me a couple of weeks ago and have...

Author: mrys Date: 02/28/2005

Official statement on cutting XQuery from the .Net Framework is now on MSDN

We have had some discussions about the cutting of XQuery from the .Net Framework in VS2005. Since...

Author: mrys Date: 01/28/2005

New XML Whitepaper: A roadmap on database and CLR XML functionality

We have published a new whitepaper on MSDN that provides a scenario based roadmap on the database...

Author: mrys Date: 01/20/2005

SQL Server 2000 SP4 and Reporting Services SP2 beta accepts self nominations

Since not everything we are doing is focusing on SQL Server 2005, it is my pleasure to point you to...

Author: mrys Date: 01/14/2005

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...

Author: mrys Date: 12/31/2004

Some Tsunami/Quake Disaster Relief.

I have a list of resources (some suggestions for donations and some online resources) to help in the...

Author: mrys Date: 12/31/2004

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...

Author: mrys Date: 12/22/2004

The top three reasons why...

... we ship an XQuery subset in SQL Server 2005 when it has been removed from the .Net Framework can...

Author: mrys Date: 12/20/2004

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...

Author: mrys Date: 12/17/2004

The Microsoft XML Team resurfaces in the blogosphere

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

Author: mrys Date: 12/17/2004

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...

Author: mrys Date: 12/16/2004

Upcoming Presentations

In the last week of September, I will be giving two presentations at SQL PASS 2004 in Orlando,...

Author: mrys Date: 09/15/2004

SQL Server Express: An advanced glimpse at SQL Server 2005 or more?

Download information on SQL Server Express.

Author: mrys Date: 06/29/2004

The following postings are discussing aspects of XQuery and its Type System: Discussion of the...

Author: mrys Date: 06/13/2004

I decided to finally join the https://blogs.msdn.com community. However, I will contine to mainly...

Author: mrys Date: 06/08/2004

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