The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases.

This class makes it very easy, almost trivial, to convert SQL query results into XML, but a major disadvantage of OracleXMLQuery is that it is a proprietary solution.

The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News.) ...

The alternative of searching XML documents via the SQL database query language is not suitable, O’Grady said.

Figure 1. The plan XML above, shows the highlighted range value. This process works in a manner that is similar (but different) than forced execution plans in query store.

As the co-creator of Structured Query Language (SQL), Don Chamberlin knows a thing or two about pulling data out of relational databases. So when he spoke at the user conference for NoSQL database ...

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.