I was at Software AG's SOA Governance Summit last week and got a chance to see Gartner analyst Frank Kenney give a presentation - on SOA Governance of course.  As always, Frank did a great job - but there is one...

In Today’s post of the XQuery for the SQL programmer series, we’ll discuss parameterized queries.

A SQL statement can include parameter markers, indicating values that your application will specify at...

But, he's said something nice about Progress Actional. He's sharing his perspective on use of intermediaries and monitoring services. He's got a good perspective, because...

Interested in hearing from a customer of ours how they use DataDirect XQuery and DataDirect XML Converters? And why? Maybe you have a similar need and DataDirect's XML products can...

Answer: Hopefully better than the NYC Department of Traffic.

Before you laugh at them, think very carefully about your model of SOA Governance.

Gartner analyst Frank Kenny uses a slide that shows SOA Governance containing...

We often receive this kind of question: "I have a large XML document and I need to split it in many smaller documents; my document looks like this:[cc lang="xquery"] field1.1 field2.1 [/cc]...and I need to documents that don't contain more than N records each." Using...

Permit me some promotion for another XQuery workshop.

This interactive workshop introduces an approach to data services based on XML and XQuery and is based on a typical scenario where a hypothetical IT organization needs to create a set of data services exposing various functionality. The...

What the cost is for not having it. Did you forget to think about SOA management when you developed your SOA infrastructure deployment plan? If you haven't already, listen to this podcast presented by Dan Foody, VP of Products for Actional at Progress Software, and hear an example of a...

In today’s post we’ll show how to update your relational database using XQuery. As for all posts in this series, we’ll start with SQL statements, and show the equivalent xqueries.