John de Longa, DataDirect

John started his working life as an Electrical Engineer and over time moved to computing in the 1980s. He founded a company specializing in Database access and reporting.

Intersolv acquired the company and went onto work with MERANT a merger of Intersolv and Micro Focus. John was a founder member of DataDirect when it was spun out of MERANT and has held a number roles within the Company, at present he is a Solutions Architect working with both Corporate and OEM customers.

Presentation: "Data - XML and XQuery a language that can combine and transform data"

Track: Solutions Track (Thursday)

Time: Thursday 10:45 - 11:45

Location: Rutherford Room

Abstract:

Data and Data Stores are being found in many areas including RDBMS, XML data, Web Services and Proprietary Legacy data sources. Similarly may systems are making use of XML as a medium for interoperation between systems and transforming data.

An evolving query standard is XQuery.

The many capabilities of XQuery will be discussed and a number of scenarios will be covered in the presentation.