This topic provides XQuery examples against XML instances that are stored in various **xml** type columns in the AdventureWorks database. ### A. Using the true() XQuery Boolean function The following ...

Returns the namespace URI of the QName specified in *$arg* as a xs:string. - If the argument is omitted, the default is the context node. - In SQL Server, **fn ...

Although most pundits agree that XML will become the standard for data storage and retrieval in the next decade, they can’t agree on how it will be implemented. Both theories are based on the ...

Abstract: The modern XML query language called XQuery includes advanced facilities both to query and to transform XML data. An XQuery query optimizer should be able to optimize any query. For ...

Larry Kim, product manager of the XML Products Group at DataDirect Technologies shared the results of a survey the company just commissioned on the long-anticipated XQuery standard. XQuery promises to ...