What is pureXML™? Have you ever wondered how business was conducted prior to the Internet? You will soon be asking a similar question - how did we manage XML data prior to DB2 9? Gone are the days of storing XML data as a CLOB or shredding to relational tables. DB2 9's pureXML feature has revolutionized support for XML data - handling XML as a new data type that is stored in a natural hierarchy - different from relational data. pureXML's seamless integration of XML with relational data speeds application development, improves search performance with highly optimized XML indexes, and is flexible because both SQL and XQuery can be used to query XML data. pureXML....Finally.
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