I had the opportunity to attend the DataDirect-sponsored XML Workshop in Toronto. It was presented by Ivan Pedruzzi, Program Manager for the DataDirect XML Products. The workshop was interactive discussing and demonstrating how the Data Integration Suite solves the problems of accessing data from various data stores. Many questions asked by the attendees were about [...]
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Looking for a quick and easy way to get acquainted with the Data Integration Suite? If so, this Summer School program is what you are looking for! The Data Integration Suite Summer School program is a free, self-paced, online classroom experience. It has been designed to show you how the Data integration Suite has matured [...]
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The XQuery API for Java (XQJ) is finally released. A single package including specification, javadoc and api jar file can be downloaded here. If you want to know more about XQJ, check out our tutorial on datadirect.com.Or want to try it out? DataDirect XQuery supports XQJ 1.0.
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In June (Washington and Toronto) and September (Houston, Chicago, New York, Minneapolis) we are going to present two XML Workshops describing typical problems that IT organization involved in a variety of industry verticals often need to solve; and we wiil show how Data Integration Suite can help. As usual the workshops will be “hands-on”, showing [...]
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This second post in the series Integrating Office applications with Salesforce.com talks about querying Microsoft Office Word forms. This is in no way a complete introduction on WordProcessingML, or the .docx file format used by Microsoft Word. Such great introduction is
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Earlier this year DataDirect attended their second QCON Conference and exhibition in London. QCON is an eclectic mix of technologies, vendors and speakers. The conference runs over three day with speaking slots starting 9am and going on until 6:45pm. There are six track for the three days so plenty to interest any development and technology! [...]
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As a regular reader of this blog, you probably remember we discussed at various occasions the ability to query, update and create Microsoft Office documents, using the DataDirect Integration Suite. But wait… all those examples were based on Microsoft Excel? As you expect, nothing prevents you from querying other formats, like Microsoft Word documents. As [...]
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Our previous post demonstrated how easy it is to create Microsoft Office documents with DataDirect XQuery. Today we’ll go through the same exercise for Open Office based on the Open Document standard. We’ll reuse the use case of last time, and create a .ODS spreadsheet similar to our .XLSX. We’ll query the BIDS table of [...]
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In the past we have seen examples of how to “shred” XML documents into database tables; DataDirect XQuery provides the best of the two worlds: a highly efficient and scalable XML query language and support for inserting/updating/deleting data available in a RDBMS directly from the XQuery language.If you have read some of the past posts [...]
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A few weeks ago I provided a few examples about problems like converting HIPAA 4010 messages into HIPAA 5010, and about the complexity of migrating from the older ICD-9 set of diagnostic codes to ICD-10.Considering the mandated compliancy timeframes for the switch from 4010 to 5010 and ICD-9 to ICD-10, it is reasonable to assume [...]
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