Survey: XML in the database

Note: The following article is in German, because the referenced blog is written in German.

Der Carsten Czarski, auch bekannt für seine tolle Arbeit auf den Seiten der deutschen Oracle APEX Community, macht gerade auf seinem Blog SQL und PL/SQL in Oracle eine Umfrage zum Thema "XML in der Datenbank". Vielleicht schaut Ihr ja schnell mal vorbei und macht mit!

Übrigens, sein Blog enthält immer wieder tolle Postings. Sehr lesenswert!

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XML processing in the database

A few days ago I came across an interesting posting on the AMIS blog about an XML(DB) presentation at the OOP 2007 conference.

The presentation done by Ken Atkins is also available online and is really worth reading it. It gives a comprehensive overview (with lot of examples) of the built-in XML processing features of the Oracle database.

So if you ever have the requirement to parse an XML file or export your relational stored data as an XML file, you don't have to use Java or any other language on the Application Server to do that job. You can easily do it directly in the database / Oracle APEX. And I'm quite sure it will be much faster than doing it outside of the database. BTW, I used some of the XML processing features recently in my first OTN article about Integrating Yahoo Pipes into an Oracle APEX Application

Download the presentation:

• http://www.odtugopp07.com/Atkins_Ken1.pdf
• http://www.odtugopp07.com/Atkins_Ken2.pdf

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