Raheel Retiwalla

We were listening to a CIO explain how two years ago his company had instituted a mandatory XML policy for the IT staff. Senior management had decided that XML offered too great a competitive advantage for them to pass up using it. The use of XML, he explained, allowed them to quickly change and share their core business structures. The development staff had easily found ways to use XML within their applications. These included importing XML files, typed data sets, transformations, and schemas. However, he did caution that there were still some challenges. Unfortunately, the database administrators, although they tried, were not having much success. They complained to him that they didn't have the same ease of use and variety of tools that the developers did. With a stern look that seems to be a requirement for his job, he wanted an explanation of how he could solv... (more)