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.

On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. XQuery allows you to work in one common ...

Sending a SQL query against remote, heterogeneous databases is just one of several ways to integrate data. Others include the following: ...

Last month, Oracle unveiled Big Data SQL, a tool that can run a SQL query against Oracle’s data store, as well as Hadoop and NoSQL stores. The software is an option for the Big Data Appliance.