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When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

I'm trying to figure out if I'm just an inexperienced developer as it relates to building applications on top of relational databases, or if there is greater value in terms of flexibility and ...

In a world that is all about new apps and cloud computing, sometimes the important stuff doesn’t look new or cool. Sometimes key small business tools are just functional, they might have been around a ...