In my opinion the rage against ESBs is directed more at the term "Enterprise Service Bus" than at the need for integration within an enterprise SOA. Few bloggers would...

Often you join multiple table in SQL queries. What about XQuery, how can we perform joins in XQuery? This is what this third post in the XQuery for the SQL programmer series is all about.

A first...

In this second post of the XQuery for the SQL programmer series we’ll explain how to represent relational tables in XML and query them through XQuery.

SQL/XML mapping

The...

As some of you know, I'm more than just a pretty face. In fact, more years ago than I care to think about, I got my MBA because I was more interested in how and why technology got used in the enterprise way more than how it was implemented or what technology it was.

Of course, as with...

Rob Hailstone, an analyst over at The Butler Group, just wrote an article talking about our IONA...

As I write this, I wonder if Joe will wonder why one of his (very loyal, and loved by many) employees (me) would promote Oracle on the company blog! Hear me out Joe... this is good news, for us, and for Oracle (and BEA) customers.

Just back from vacation (I know, y'all missed me), and...

Ok, I admit it. I'm a relational guy. SQL is my language of choice - the old standby that does it all, why would I need more?!?

Another tool in my toolbox you say? Something for when SQL is not enough or I want to do more? The world isn't all rows and columns you say? Hmm.....I do like...

Well, my intrepid investigative reporter friend, Jeff Schneider, broke the news.  We've acquired Mindreef.  You can never time these things perfectly, and we didn't want to have news of Mindreef...

At DataDirect we often get XQuery coding questions from SQL programmers. It can probably be explained by two main reasons. First there are many developers with a SQL background, not surprising they are looking for some analogy with SQL during their first XQuery steps. Second, with...