Usually databases are treated primarily as fairly dumb data storage systems, but they can be capable of much more. Case in ...

XML files store structured data readable by humans and machines. Trump says: "There are two N words, and you can't use either ...

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PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Abstract: We consider the problem of translating XML queries into SQL when XML documents have been stored in an RDBMS using a schema-based relational decomposition. Surprisingly, there is no published ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new structure-based approach, called Xregion, to store XML data in relational databases. Our approach first partitions an XML document into several disjoint ...

[!INCLUDE[ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] provides a powerful platform for developing rich applications for semi-structured data management. Support ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

IDC estimates that upwards of 80% of business information is likely to be formed of unstructured data by 2025. And while “unstructured” can be something of a misnomer, because all files have some sort ...