Released xmlsh version 1.0.7, a command line (and scripting) shell for text and XML processing based on the unix shells but redesigned for today’s modern processing needs.
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ANNOUNCE: xmlsh 1.0.7 with support for Saxon EE,
PE. New function call syntax, other bug fixes.
See EMC’s press release on the deal here . First, some takeaways from the press release and related coverage: All cash transaction, valuation undisclosed. See below for some fun and math, trying to guestimate it from standard ratios. Greenplum had raised $61M in venture capital. EMC intends to create a new “data computing” product division and to have Greenplum CEO Bill Cook run it, reporting to Pat Gelsinger .
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EMC Acquires Data Warehouse Vendor Greenplum; Creates New “Data Computing” Product Division
Long-term database guy and MarkLogic VP of Engineering Ron Avnur said that at our last user conference that MarkLogic was “ NoSQL before NoSQL was cool.” He even made up about 500 t-shirts with that slogan on them and handed them out. See Ron if you want a t-shirt. See this post if you want my analysis of his statement. Let’s look first at what MarkLogic is about: Unstructured data. This means not only dealing with data in odd structures (e.g., sparse and/or semi-structured data), but also handling words and all the challenges that go with them
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MarkLogic: NoSQL Before NoSQL Was Cool
The gnomes of ISO (err, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 WG5) have released the second draft of their Technical Report comparing ODF and OOXML (PDF). It is up to 126 pages now, and much more fleshed out than the first draft. One..
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ODF and OOXML Translation: Working Draft 2 of ISO technical report out
Hi Paul, Regarding SKOS [1, 2], I’d be happy to try and answer any questions you have. You might also ask on the http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk mailing list , which is the SKOS community mailing list, and which would also be a good place to ask for recent information on published SKOS data. I’m sorry there is no definitive list of available SKOS data, but two other good places to look for information on published SKOS data are the SKOS implementation report [3] and the SKOS datazone wiki page [4]
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Implementing the XQuery full-text thesaurus match option
There are many ways to export data to SQL Azure. Plain T-SQL INSERT statements, bulk copy utility (bcp.exe) of SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Azure Migration Wizard and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) are some of them. This weekend I wanted to upload…( read more )
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Exporting Stack Overflow Data to SQL Azure
Visualization tools startup Palantir announced a follow-on financing round yesterday, raising $90M at a claimed $735M valuation . Since most people aren’t familiar with either finance or VC math , this can generate confusion so I thought I’d do a post explaining a few things. The first is simple: do not confuse valuation with revenue . Valuation (or for public companies, market capitalization) is an implied metric based on per-share price and number of shares outstanding. For example, a public company with 50M shares and a $20 share price has a valuation of $1B. That alone says nothing about its revenue. TechCrunch makes this mistake three times in the story, calling Palantir “the next billion-dollar company” in the headline, saying they’re a “near-billion dollar company” in the middle, and at the end, saying they are close: It’s hard to imagine a billion-dollar company without a sales team, but then again Palantir is getting pretty darn close
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Beware the Spectacular B-Round Valuation
Add this class to your C# project: public class Directory { private string _path; private Directory( string path) { _path = path; } public static Directory ApplicationData { get { return new Directory ( Environment .GetFolderPath( Environment .SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)); } } public static Directory CommonApplicationData { get { return new Directory ( Environment .GetFolderPath( Environment .SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData)); } } public static Directory operator /( Directory root, string folder) { return new Directory ( Path .Combine(root._path, folder)); } public static implicit operator string ( Directory directory) { return directory._path; } } Now you can express directories naturally: string databaseFileName = Directory .ApplicationData / “MichaelLPerry” / “CorrespondenceIM” / “Correspondence.sdf” ; I don’t have a good place for code like this to live. What do you do with these kinds of utilities?
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Easy .NET directory helper
This video will show how to remove the navigation bar in the blogger’s blogspot. It is possible to remove the navigation bar (some call it as Navigation strip) …
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How to remove the BLOGGER’s Navigation Bar
Your conclusion is: Xquery doesn’t get close to the mature capabilities of relational database systems when it comes to dealing with relational data! Well of course it doesn’t. It’s not designed to do that job . Data is naturally hierarchical, and XQuery is good at processing it in its hierarchical form.
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Article posted on Experts Exchange about XQuery
outer joins
