Authors: Matthias Nicola, Pav Kumar Chatterjee  Availability: August 11, 2009  Pages: ~750  ISBN 0138150478   Unique and comprehensive coverage of pureXML on all supported platforms: DB2 9.x for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and DB2 9 for z/OS   Written for database administrators and application developers, beginners and advanced DB2 users   More than 700 "recipe-style" examples of XML queries, updates, schemas, indexes, storage objects, stored procedures, and database maintenance tasks   Application code samples for Java, .NET, C, COBOL, PL/1, PHP, and Perl programmers.   DB2 pureXML best practices, tips, and tricks based on the authors' extensive hands-on experience in pureXML deployments   Coverage of brand-new XML features in DB2 9.7   Foreword by Don Chamberlin   Reviews    You can order the book at Amazon, Borders, and other retailers. Get a 35% discount at IBM Press... Foreword, Preface, and a free sample chapter available from IBM Press. Errata

Table of Contents 

Preface
Chapter 1    Introduction
Chapter 2    Designing XML Data and Applications
Chapter 3    Designing and Managing XML Storage Objects
Chapter 4    Inserting and Retrieving XML Data
Chapter 5    Moving XML Data
Chapter 6    Querying XML Data: Introduction and XPath
Chapter 7    Querying XML Data with SQL/XML
Chapter 8    Querying XML Data with XQuery
Chapter 9    Querying XML Data: Advanced Queries & Troubleshooting
Chapter 10  Producing XML from Relational Data
Chapter 11  Converting XML to Relational Data
Chapter 12  Updating and Transforming XML Documents
Chapter 13  Defining and Using XML Indexes
Chapter 14  XML Performance and Monitoring
Chapter 15  Managing XML Data with Namespaces
Chapter 16  Managing XML Schemas
Chapter 17  Validating XML Documents against XML Schemas
Chapter 18  Using XML in Stored Procedures, UDFs, and Triggers
Chapter 19  Performing Full-Text Search
Chapter 20  Understanding XML Data Encoding
Chapter 21  Developing XML Applications with DB2
Chapter 22  Exploring XML Information in the DB2 Catalog
Chapter 23  Test Your Knowledge - The DB2 pureXML Quiz
Appendix A   Getting Started with DB2 pureXML
Appendix B   The XML Sample Database
Appendix C   Further Reading

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