Customers who want to:
Store complete XML documents in a SQL database
Test and extract data from XML documents in a SQL database
Store data extracted from XML documents
Generate XML documents from SQL data
Process SQL data as XML
The information in this book is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, “Introduction to XML Services,” is an introduction to XML in the database and to the new XML capabilities of the Sybase XML Services.
Chapter 2, “XML Query Functions,” is for processing and querying XML documents within SQL statements. You can apply these query functions both to stored XML documents (that is, normal user documents), and to SQLX-XML documents generated by the for xml clause or forxmlj function, or by any similar tools that provide an XML view of SQL data. For detailed information about these functions see Chapter 4, “XML Mapping Functions.”
Chapter 3, “XML Language and XML Query Language,”contains descriptions of the XML document and query language features that the XML query functions support, including specification of the XPath language subset supported.
Chapter 4, “XML Mapping Functions,” discusses functions that map between SQL data and XML documents in the SQLX-XML format.
Chapter 5, “XML Mappings,” is a description of the SQLX-XML format of the XML documents that the XML mapping functions support.
Appendix A, “Setting Up XML Services,” includes guidelines for installing both the native, C++ processor and the Java processor that is included with Adaptive Server version 12.5 and later.
Appendix B, “The sample_docs Example Table,” is a description of the sample_docs table used in the function examples..
Appendix C, “XML Services and External File System Access”, contains examples of how to use the XML features with XFS.
Appendix D, “The Java-Based XQL Processor,” describes using XQL to selelct raw data from Adaptive Server, using XQL, and displaying the results as an XML document.
The following documents provide XML-related reference material:
ANSI/ISO SQL Part 14: XML-Related Specifications (SQL/XML), ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC32 and ISO/IEC 9075-14:2003,http://sqlx.org
Xmark – An XML benchmark project, http://monetdb.cwi.nl/xml/index.html
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Version 1.0 (second edition), 2 October 2000, http://www.w3/org/TR/REC-xml
XML Path Language (XPATH) Version 1.0, 16 November 1999, http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
XML Path Language (XPATH) Version 2.0, 15 November 2002, http://www.w3.org/XML/Query
(Working Draft) XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language, 15 November 2002, at http://www.w3.org/XML/Query
The Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise documentation set consists of the following:
The release bulletin for your platform – contains last-minute information that was too late to be included in the books.
A more recent version of the release bulletin may be available on the World Wide Web. To check for critical product or document information that was added after the release of the product CD, use the Sybase Technical Library.
The Installation Guide for your platform – describes installation, upgrade, and configuration procedures for all Adaptive Server and related Sybase products.
What’s New in Adaptive Server Enterprise? – describes the new features in Adaptive Server version 12.5.1, the system changes added to support those features, and the changes that may affect your existing applications.
ASE Replicator User’s Guide – describes how to use the ASE Replicator feature of Adaptive Server to implement basic replication from a primary server to one or more remote Adaptive Servers.
Component Integration Services User’s Guide – explains how to use the Adaptive Server Component Integration Services feature to connect remote Sybase and non-Sybase databases.
Configuring Adaptive Server Enterprise for your platform – provides instructions for performing specific configuration tasks for Adaptive Server.
EJB Server User’s Guide – explains how to use EJB Server to deploy and execute Enterprise JavaBeans in Adaptive Server.
Error Messages and Troubleshooting Guide – explains how to resolve frequently occurring error messages and describes solutions to system problems frequently encountered by users.
Full-Text Search Specialty Data Store User’s Guide – describes how to use the Full-Text Search feature with Verity to search Adaptive Server Enterprise data.
Glossary – defines technical terms used in the Adaptive Server documentation.
Historical Server User’s Guide – describes how to use Historical Server to obtain performance information for SQL Server® and Adaptive Server.
Java in Adaptive Server Enterprise – describes how to install and use Java classes as data types, functions, and stored procedures in the Adaptive Server database.
Job Scheduler User's Guide – provides instructions on how to install and configure, and create and schedule jobs on a local or remote Adaptive Server using the command line or a graphical user interface (GUI).
Monitor Client Library Programmer’s Guide – describes how to write Monitor Client Library applications that access Adaptive Server performance data.
Monitor Server User’s Guide – describes how to use Monitor Server to obtain performance statistics from SQL Server and Adaptive Server.
Performance and Tuning Guide – is a series of four books that explains how to tune Adaptive Server for maximum performance:
Basics – the basics for understanding and investigating performance questions in Adaptive Server.
Locking – describes how the various locking schemas can be used for improving performance in Adaptive Server.
Optimizer and Abstract Plans – describes how the optimizer processes queries and how abstract plans can be used to change some of the optimizer plans.
Monitoring and Analyzing – explains how statistics are obtained and used for monitoring and optimizing performance.
Quick Reference Guide – provides a comprehensive listing of the names and syntax for commands, functions, system procedures, extended system procedures, datatypes, and utilities in a pocket-sized book.
Reference Manual – is a series of four books that contains the following detailed Transact-SQL® information:
Building Blocks – Transact-SQL datatypes, functions, global variables, expressions, identifiers and wildcards, and reserved words.
Commands – Transact-SQL commands.
Procedures – Transact-SQL system procedures, catalog stored procedures, system extended stored procedures, and dbcc stored procedures.
Tables – Transact-SQL system tables and dbcc tables.
System Administration Guide – provides in-depth information about administering servers and databases. This manual includes instructions and guidelines for managing physical resources, security, user and system databases, and specifying character conversion, international language, and sort order settings.
System Tables Diagram – illustrates system tables and their entity relationships in a poster format. Available only in print version.
Transact-SQL User’s Guide – documents Transact-SQL, Sybase’s enhanced version of the relational database language. This manual serves as a textbook for beginning users of the database management system. This manual also contains descriptions of the pubs2 and pubs3 sample databases.
Using Adaptive Server Distributed Transaction Management Features – explains how to configure, use, and troubleshoot Adaptive Server DTM features in distributed transaction processing environments.
Using Sybase Failover in a High Availability System – provides instructions for using Sybase’s Failover to configure an Adaptive Server as a companion server in a high availability system.
Utility Guide – documents the Adaptive Server utility programs, such as isql and bcp, which are executed at the operating system level.
Web Services User’s Guide – explains how to configure, use, and troubleshoot Web Services for Adaptive Server.
XA Interface Integration Guide for CICS, Encina, and TUXEDO – provides instructions for using the Sybase DTM XA interface with X/Open XA transaction managers.
XML Services in Adaptive Server Enterprise – describes the Sybase native XML processor and the Sybase Java-based XML support, introduces XML in the database, and documents the query and mapping functions that comprise XML Services.
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This book uses these font and syntax conventions for Java items:
Classes, interfaces, methods, and packages are shown in Helvetica within paragraph text. For example:
SybEventHandler interface
setBinaryStream() method
com.Sybase.jdbx package
Objects, instances, and parameter names are shown in italics. For example:
“In the following example, ctx is a DirContext object.”
“eventHandler is an instance of the SybEventHandler class that you implement.”
“The classes parameter is a string that lists specific classes you want to debug.”
Java names are always case sensitive. For example, if a Java method name is shown as Misc.stripLeadingBlanks(), you must type the method name exactly as displayed.
This book uses the same font and syntax conventions for Transact-SQL as other Adaptive Server documents:
Command names, command option names, utility names, utility flags, and other keywords are in Helvetica in paragraph text. For example:
select command
isql utility
-f flag
Variables, or words that stand for values that you fill in, are in italics. For example:
user_name
server_name
Code fragments are shown in a monospace font.Variables in code fragments (that is, words that stand for values that you fill in) are italicized. For example:
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:sybase:Tds:host:port", props);
You can disregard case when typing Transact-SQL keywords. For example, SELECT, Select, and select are the same.
Additional conventions for syntax statements in this manual are described in Table 1. You can find examples illustrating each convention in the System Administration Guide.
Key |
Definition |
|---|---|
{ } |
Curly braces indicate that you choose at least one of the enclosed options. Do not include braces in your option. |
[ ] |
Brackets mean choosing one or more of the enclosed options is optional. Do not include brackets in your option. |
( ) |
Parentheses are to be typed as part of the command. |
| |
The vertical bar means you may select only one of the options shown. |
, |
The comma means you may choose as many of the options shown as you like, separating your choices with commas to be typed as part of the command. |
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