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Beginning ASP.NET Databases Using VB.NET

ISBN: N/A
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 102

Authors: John Kauffman, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Brian Matsik, Eric N. Mintz, Jan D. Narkiewicz, Kent Tegels, Donald Xie, John West, Jesudas Chinnathampi, James Greenwood

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Preface
• This Book
• Who Should Read This Book?
• Organization and Roadmap
• Software
• Cover Photograph
• Ongoing
• Contributors
• Don Chamberlin
• Denise Draper
• Mary Fernndez
• Howard Katz
• Michael Kay
• Jonathan Robie
• Michael Rys
• Jrme Simon
• Jim Tivy
• Philip Wadler
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Basics
• Chapter 1. XQuery: A Guided Tour
• Sample Data: A Bibliography
• Data Model
• Literals and Comments
• Input Functions
• Locating Nodes: Path Expressions
• Creating Nodes: Element, Attribute, and Document Constructors
• Combining and Restructuring Nodes
• Operators
• Built-in Functions
• User-Defined Functions
• Variable Definitions
• Library Modules
• External Functions and Variables
• Types in XQuery
• Summary
• Part II: Background
• Chapter 2. Influences on the Design of XQuery
• The Need for an XML Query Language
• Basic Principles
• The Query Data Model
• Related Languages and Standards
• Watershed Issues
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3. XQuery, XPath, and XSLT
• XSLT: A Quick Introduction
• XPath 1.0
• Why Was a New Query Language Needed?
• Convergence: XPath 2.0
• XSLT and XQuery Compared
• Optimization Techniques
• Conclusion
• Part III: Formal Underpinnings
• Chapter 4. Static Typing in XQuery
• The Benefits of Static Typing
• An XQuery Programming Scenario
• Getting Started with Types
• Literals and Operators
• Variables
• Functions
• Conditionals
• Path Expressions
• Predicates
• FLWOR Expressions
• Element Construction
• Validation Context
• Validation Mode
• A Final Example: Grouping
• Conclusions
• Chapter 5. Introduction to the Formal Semantics
• The Benefits of a Formal Semantics
• Getting Started with the Formal Semantics
• Learning More about XQuery
• The Forest through the Trees
• Part IV: Databases
• Chapter 6. Mapping between XML and Relational Data
• Framing the Problem
• LOB or Compose?
• Composition Techniques: Common Concepts
• Composition Techniques: Examples
• Shredding
• Implementation Concepts
• Conclusion
• Chapter 7. Integrating XQuery and Relational Database Systems
• Getting Started
• Relational Storage of XML: The XML Type
• Integrating XQuery and SQL: Querying XML Datatypes
• Physical Mappings of XQuery
• Top-Level XQuery
• Conclusion and Issues
• Chapter 8. A Native XML DBMS
• What Is XML Data?
• Interfaces to a Native XML Database
• Full-Text Search in a Native XML Database
• Sample Applications
• Conclusion
• References
• Glossary