We see more and more DataDirect XQuery users shredding XML documents into a relational database. Reading specific data out of XML documents and storing it in their database....

Today I am revisiting a subject that I've tackled previously - that of data security. Specifically, network encryption - the kind of data security that protects sensitive information as it traverses a network. The kind...

Like the picture? It's not really relevant to anything contained in the following post except that it is an excellent visual aid for describing my professional life of late. "To leave whatever you're doing, you have to change your course." Yep, that about sums it up.

Let it never be said...

Last month we discussed Transforming XML using XQuery updates. With XQuery 1.0 update and transform operations are rather challenging to implement. Or you can use some library to get there, like we...

Joe McKendrick's recent post comments that many analysts are now putting SOA governance and SOA management tools into a single category. He cites arguments that they are in fact very different, stating that while governance is about managing the development and the life cycle of services,...

We have all seen google app engine, amazon's web services, SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) from Microsoft, and others. The whole premise behind the movement is to make your IT infrastructure "rentable". I for one think that this is both a great idea and a bad one all at once. For instance, it makes...

In one of my previous posts I blogged about the new W3C XML Query publications, including XQuery Update Facility.

Talking to people,...

Last week Jeremy Suratt made an interesting point on the Infor Tech Talk blog.  He says that event-driven architecture (EDA) is different from traditional service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the...

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