Most businesses have an urgent need for up-to-date, accurate information based on data from multiple data sources. It would be much easier if all your data were stored in one database so it can be queried as a whole, but this is rarely practical. In the real world, data integration is ... Most businesses have an urgent need for up-to-date, accurate information based on data from multiple data sources. It would be much easier if all your data were stored in one database so it can be queried as a whole, but this is rarely practical. In the real world, data integration is ...Dec. 14, 2006 10:00 AM EST Reads: 10,279 |
Despite a shortage of sophisticated XML query tools, Internet demands have forced companies to present their data in various formats. In one sense little has changed, as SQL queries have long been used to combine data for different purposes and audiences. Jan. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,109 Replies: 1 |







Jonathan Robie is the XML program manager at DataDirect Technologies. Before joining DataDirect, Jonathan was an XML research specialist at Software AG. Jonathan works very closely with the W3C; he is a co-author of the XQuery specification, has participated in several W3C Working Groups, and speaks regularly at XML conferences. Jonathan wrote an XQuery tutorial for a book called XQuery from the Experts which is now available on Amazon.com.


















