Managing Collections of XML Schemas in Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Schema evolution is of two kinds: (a) those requiring instance transformation because the application is simpler to develop when it works only with one version of the schema, and (b) those in which the old data must be preserved and instance transformation must be avoided. The latter is important in practice but has received scant attention in the literature. Data conforming to multiple versions of the XML schema must be maintained, indexed, and manipulated using the same query. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 introduces XML schema collections to address both types of schema evolution.

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1. Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, 98052, USA

   Shankar Pal, Dragan Tomic, Brandon Berg & Joe Xavier

Editors and Affiliations

1. University of Athens, Greece

   Yannis Ioannidis

2. University of Konstanz, P.O.Box D188, 78457, Konstanz, Germany

   Marc H. Scholl

3. Sustainable Content Logistics Centre, Hamburg, Germany

   Joachim W. Schmidt

4. Chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748, Garching b. München,  

   Florian Matthes

5. Department of Informatics, University of Athens Panepistimiopolis, 15771, Athens, Greece

   Mike Hatzopoulos

6. IPD, Universität Karlsruhe, Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe,  

   Klemens Boehm

7. TU München, D-85748, Garching, Germany

   Alfons Kemper

8. Technische Universität München, Germany

   Torsten Grust

9. Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München,  

   Christian Boehm

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