Want to create a Windows application that lets your user edit and view structured data locally without connecting to a remote database? XML is the answer.

The document is then saved as a text file and a PERL program is used to extract the data and generate the XML database. Other utilities access this database to create C/C++ include files that contain ...

By using Extensible Markup Language, or XML, companies can parse information including data and content in a variety of ways.

Well, all thats changing, because this is the year when XML comes home. Home, as in, to its rightful home—roosting right where database administrators want it: in the relational database.

XML databases can handle data of just about any size or format. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

XML represents such description data, borrowing the markup syntax of HTML to wrap data in "meta data." Using any programming language, even C, a programmer can print formatted XML markup to a file ...

Even better, these examples show how to pass XML data to stored procedures, and how they can be made to read single or multiple sets of criteria easily, using only a few lines of TSQL.