DB2 9

[Tony Linde]

Couple more IBM resources:

SQL and XQuery tutorial for IBM DB2 (series of 5 so far):
 
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/views/db2/libraryview.jsp?search_by=sq
l+xquery+tutorial+series

Create an XML-based application using DB2 9:
 
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/dm-dw-dm-0608balani-i.html?S_TACT=
105AGX54&ca=dnw-729

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] 
> On Behalf Of Tony Linde
> Sent: 04 August 2006 10:19
> To: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: DB2 9
> 
> An announcement (one of many) about IBM DB2 v9 - a relational 
> dbms with xml
> support:
>  
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/long/dm-0607
> ahuja2/?ca=dnw
> -726
> 
> DB2 is free to use by people in institutes registered on 
> their academic programme though I'm not sure how that applies 
> to independent astro insts.
> If anyone evaluates this new version of DB2 and how well it 
> supports XQuery it'd be useful if they could post a review here.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tony. 
> 
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