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Title: XML Lets Loose the Data Stream

Author: Earls, Alan R Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Application Development Trends, v11 n10 p31(4) Publication Date: Oct 2004
  ISSN: 1073-9564
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.adtmag.com

A discussion is provided of the power of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and whether XML will mean evolutionary or revolutionary changes to database applications. One analyst says customers will continue to want their RDBMSs, while another says the emerging crop of XML technologies is a powerful force that will re-orient the database river as well as other parts of IT. XML has the potential to offer easier, more flexible, and more robust database that integrate better across applications and firms. Whether XML can meet its promise in a way that will be attractive to the market is another issue. The key is for XML to have a wider perspective. Developments over the last 10 years have resulted in DBMSs having a reduced role. However, DBMSs will re-emerge with a growing role in the server software stack for various reasons, and XML is one of the most significant. Topics covered include the possibility that XML will be more popular when users adjust to XML's new ways, and an analyst's assertion that XML must be kept in perspective as nothing more than a markup language. Microsoft is not likely to go further with XML until the next version of Microsoft SQL Server. An expert says his perception is that clients are not very interested in XML query, but are still primarily centering projects around SQL.

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Microsoft Corp

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Microsoft SQL Server SQL
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