The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases.

How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL. If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results.

Microsoft is introducing other capabilities to SQL Server 2025 to facilitate the development of AI-based applications, including JSON support, a Python driver, and change event streaming.

Collection of 10 specifications enable XML files to be queried like a database ...