Professional XML Databases

Professional XML Databases

Professional XML Databases By Wrox Team Wrox Press Ltd. $49.99 ISBN: 1861003587 Buy It!

In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data - whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing - you need to have command of four key skills: understanding how to structure, process, access, and store your data.

By introducing guidelines for how to model your XML documents in relational databases and how to model relational database information as XML, we will establish structures that enable quick and efficient access, and make our data more flexible. We then look at the developer's XML toolbox, discussing associated technologies and strategies that will help us in describing, processing, and manipulating data. We also discuss common techniques for data access, data warehousing, transmission, and marshalling and presentation, giving working examples in ever chapter.

Whether you are using XML for storage, as an interchange format, or for display, this book looks at the key issues, you should be aware of when structuring, processing, accessing, and storing your documents.

What does this book cover?

• How to handle translating an XML structure to a relational database model
• Rules for modeling XML based upon a relational database structure
• Common techniques for storing, transmitting, and displaying your content
• Data access mechanisms that expose relational data as XML
• How to use related techniques when processing your XML data
• XML support in SQL Server 2000

Who is this book for?

While this book will discuss some conceptual issues, its focus is on development and implementation. This book is for programmers and analysts who are already familiar with both XML and relational databases.

Book Excerpts

• Chapter 2: XML Structures for Existing Databases