SQL Server 2008 R2 Express - Overview. Things you can do Build web and mobile applications for multiple data types Support structured and unstructured data while storing business data with native support for relational data, XML, and spatial data. Add geographical information to business applications and build location-aware applications. Increase granularity of temporal data with date and time data types. Easily manage SQL Server instances Manage SQL Server Express databases with SQL Server Management Studio Express. Connect to local SQL Server Express databases and manage objects with full Object Explorer integration. Basic reporting services Visualize data through basic Reporting Services (available with SQL Server Express with Advanced Services) and create readable reports that answer complex user questions. Simplify and speed development with rich developer tools Take advantage of existing Transact-SQL skills, and incorporate technologies like Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ.
Welcome | The Data Warehousing Information Center. TDWI. OLAP Software and Education Wiki - OLAP. XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications. XML representation of a relational database. A relational database consists of a set of tables, where each table is a set of records. A record in turn is a set of fields and each field is a pair field-name/field-value. All records in a particular table have the same number of fields with the same field-names. This article describes an application of (a simple subset of) XML that can be used to represent such a database. The relational data-model also defines certain constraints on the tables and defines operations on them. We are not concerned with the constraints and operations here. In other words, we are not trying to create a query language or a data-definition language, just a language that captures the data in a database or in a particular view of the database. Several such languages are possible, of course, and it not hard to come up with alternative and equally valid ones as the one described below.
Introduction <! The format is verbose, since XML is verbose. The database <! The name is arbitrary. The table The record The field <! <! Native XML Database. XML & Databases. XML and Databases. Copyright 1999-2005 by Ronald Bourret Last updated September, 2005 This article also available in: Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction This paper gives a high-level overview of how to use XML with databases.
It describes how the differences between data-centric and document-centric documents affect their usage with databases, how XML is commonly used with relational databases, and what native XML databases are and when to use them. NOTE: Although the information discussed in this paper is (mostly) up-to-date, the idea that the world of XML and databases can be seen through the data-centric/document-centric divide is somewhat dated. 2.0 Is XML a Database? Before we start talking about XML and databases, we need to answer a question that occurs to many people: "Is XML a database?
" An XML document is a database only in the strictest sense of the term. 3.0 Why Use a Database? For example, suppose you have an e-commerce application that uses XML as a data transport. 4.0 Data versus Documents. Open Source Business Intelligence - Open Source Reporting, ETL & Data Integration and OLAP | Pentaho. Joe Celko The SQL Apprentice. The Data Administration Newsletter: Articles by Joe Celko. PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database.