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(Kevin Williams) In this series, we’ll take a look at how relationships (in the relational database sense) are modeled in XML. Armed with this information and the information from the articles one and two in this series, you’ll be able to dive in and get started modeling your relational data in XML
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Table Partitioning in DB2 Viper – Details Part 3
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