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I inadvertently omitted two (apparently important!)
parameters off the end of the download URL. Try
this URL for download instead:
http://www.oracle.com/start/dbrev2/intro.htm?src=1332491&Act=4
Thanks.
__________________________________________________________
Steve Muench - Developer, Product Mgr, Evangelist, Author
Simplify J2EE and EJB Development with BC4J
http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/htdocs/j2ee_bc4j.html
Building Oracle XML Apps, www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Muench" <Steve.Muench@oracle.com>
To: "Xml-Dev" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject: [xml-dev] ANN: Oracle XQuery Prototype & Production SQLX+XMLType Support
| Two announcements of interest to folks working with XML and databases...
|
| (1) In March 2002, Oracle posted an XQuery prototype at:
|
| http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/tech/xml/xmldb/content.html
|
| with support focusing on the "R" (Relational Data) and the "XMP"
| (Experiences and Exemplars) XQuery use cases, and featuring an
| experimental JDBC-style Java API for XQuery as well as a sql()
| function for using XQuery over SQL query results. Our goal is
| ultimately to provide both a SQL-flavored and an XQuery-based
| query *syntax* for XML content in Oracle leveraging the same
| underlying database engine via appropriate query rewriting. That
| common underlying engine is now production. See (#2).
|
| (2) This week -- over two years in the making -- Oracle announced
| the release of Oracle9i Release 2, with major new native database
| support for XML, and made the software available for download for
| eight different platforms. Key new features include:
|
| -> Single database engine supporting all existing datatypes
| (relational, SQL99 objects, data warehousing, geospatial,
| time-series, multimedia, etc.) integrated with a *new* native
| XMLType...all sharing a common SQL query language (extended for
| XML), common maintenance, transactions, backup/recovery, etc.
|
| -> Support for forthcoming ISO SQLX standard extensions to SQL for
| constructing XML in SQL including the operators XMLElement(),
| XMLAttributes(), XMLForest(), XMLAgg(), and XMLConcat()
|
| -> Full W3C XML Schema 1.0, XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0, and DOM Core
| support for native XMLType datatype implemented deep inside the
| engine and exposed to SQL, PL/SQL and Java API's. Users can
| augment built-in processing of XML documents with stored
| procedures, functions, and triggers as for any other types and
| tables.
|
| -> Automatic Object/Relational Storage for XML documents based on
| XML Schema, with optional fine-tuning of the mapping via Schema
| Annotations (already supported in XML Spy 4.3 tool). Includes
| optional support for full DOM fidelity and mixed content
| storage.
|
| -> SQL extensions for XPath-based extract(), extractValue(),
| existsNode(), and updateXML() operators for manipulating
| documents, including the ability to rewrite a subset of XPath
| expressions to use underlying object/relational indices and
| full-text indices for maximum performance.
|
| -> Plus a lot more.
|
| A more complete overview of what's new for XML functionality is at:
|
| http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/appdev.920/a96620/whatsnew.htm
|
| Full documentation is online and searchable in HTML and PDF formats at:
|
| http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/index.htm
|
| Technical overviews and whitepapers are available at:
|
| http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xmldb/content.html
|
| You can download a developer's licensed version for experimentation on
| any/all of the following eight platforms:
|
| (*) WindowsNT/2000/XP
| (*) Sun SPARC Solaris (32-bit)
| (*) Sun SPARC Solaris (64-bit)
| (*) Linux
| (*) AIX (64-bit)
| (*) AIX5L
| (*) HP-UX
| (*) Compaq Tru64
|
| At http://www.oracle.com/start/dbrev2/intro.htm
|
| Any technical questions can be posted in our "XML Discussion Forum" at
| http://www.oracle.com/forums
|
| It's been hard not being able to talk about all of this new
| support for more than two years. The cat is finally out of the bag! :-)
|
| Enjoy.
|
| __________________________________________________________
| Steve Muench - Developer, Product Mgr, Evangelist, Author
| Simplify J2EE and EJB Development with BC4J
| http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/htdocs/j2ee_bc4j.html
| Building Oracle XML Apps, www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp
|
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