Brings various elements of database design together. This book consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects da[...]
XML has become the lingua franca for representing business data, for exchanging information between business partners and applications, and for adding structure - and sometimes meaning-to text-based documents. XML offers some special challenges and opportunities in the area of search: querying XML c[...]