IBM last week released the initial open beta of a planned update to its flagship DB2 database that will offer users the ability to natively store unstructured XML data separately from conventional ...

What if you use XML as a data interchange format? In this case, a source application encodes data from its own native format as XML, and a target application decodes the XML data into its own native ...

Code-named “Viper” and due for release in early summer, will be more worthy of its “Universal Database” tagline than previous versions. Not only does Viper contain an extensive list of enhancements ...