Professional XML Databases (by Kevin Williams)

"Professional XML Databases" by Kevin Williams
Publisher: Wrox | Nov 2000 | ISBN: 1861003587 | PDF | 5.55 Mb | 1005 Pages

In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data - whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing - you need to have command of four key skills: understanding how to structure, process, access, and store your data.
By introducing guidelines for how to model your XML documents in relational databases and how to model relational database information as XML, we will establish structures that enable quick and efficient access, and make our data more flexible. We then look at the developer's XML toolbox, discussing associated technologies and strategies that will help us in describing, processing, and manipulating data. We also discuss common techniques for data access, data warehousing, transmission, and marshalling and presentation, giving working examples in every chapter.
Whether you are using XML for storage, as an interchange format, or for display, this book looks at some of the key issues you should be aware of when structuring, processing, accessing, and storing your documents.

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Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL (book + source code)

"Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL" by Wallace B. McClure, Gregory A. Beamer, John J. Croft, IV, J. Ambrose Little, Bill Ryan, Phil Winstanley, David Yack, Jeremy Zongker
Publisher: Wrox (2005) | ISBN: 0764584375 | PDF | 5.81 Mb | 648 Pages

ADO.NET revolutionized the way data was accessed through SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. With Microsoft's release of ADO.NET 2, ADO and the .NET Framework are integrated with SQL Server for the first time-enabling you to program .NET applications directly within the SQL Server database.
Packed with sample code and recommended best practices for using ADO.NET 2, this code-intensive book explores the new data types that are available in the 2.0 Framework and discusses the appropriate time and way to use them. You'll learn how to make repetitive, mundane tasks much simpler and you'll walk away with a solid foundation for developing database-driven applications.

What you will learn from this book
* The basics of creating a connection, executing a query, and returning a result
* Best uses for Oracle in the ADO.NET Framework
* The many new features that are available for XML
* How to use the full text search capabilities of Microsoft(r) SQL Server 2005
* Methods for retrieving data and presenting it in various ways
* Why MySQL is a viable option for data storage.

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