Data & AI

I have this fantasy that I'll quit this labor of love here at Progress, and start a real career selling t-shirts with street-signs-that-would-be-funny-as-t-shirt-sayings. Always on the lookout for that breakout sign, today I found one to share.

I drove by this big rig with a sign on the...

We recently noticed some questions on a newsgroup that attracted our attention. The question was something similar to this: How to create an XQuery which generates SQL like [cc lang="sql" theme="xquery"] SELECT t1.columnName1 FROM Table t1 WHERE t1.columnName2...

Trust me, I'd like to say "no, SOA governance is the key to unlocking the business agility of SOA."  Problem is, it's not true -- at least the way I see most people approaching it...

One of the core "best practices" in SOA governance is to define policies that...

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I was going to reserve comment on IBM's recent article on JLINQ but I really can't help myself. Here's a link to the...

I've just finished a really good article in Dr. Dobb's Journal entitled, "The Return of the Desktop". The basic premise of the article is that for several years applications have become more and more web-centric and now it's time to break free of the browser and return to the desktop. I couldn't...

The XQuery 1.0 specification consists out of multiple books, one is XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization. Given a data model instance, it defines how to serialize it into...

John Soat's (Information Week) question "What's the first thing a CIO should do?" got me thinking. "What's the first thing I would do if I started a new job as SOA President?" I've...

A few months back Progress Software hosted an online event called, Drive Operational Excellence with SOA. The webinar featured a guest speaker, and customer, from Pacific Blue Cross who...

In XQJ Part III we learned how to execute queries. In XQuery, query evaluation results in a sequence. In XQJ, executing a query through XQExpression or XQPreparedExpression returns an XQSequence object. An...