Free eBooks 

• Technical introduction: to get started with DB2 XML,  "DB2 9: pureXML Fast Start and Overview"by Cynthia Saracco, Don Chamberlin, and Rav Ahuja (with a foreward from Sal Vella).  The book provides an overview of new DB2 support for XQuery, SQL/XML, XML Schemas, XML application development, and more.  Also includes a customer case study.

• IBM Redbook:   DB2 9 pureXML Guide. This 400-page book, written by Whei-Jen Chen, Art Sammartino, Domromir Goutev, Felicity Hendricks, Ippei Komi, Ming-Pang Wei, and Rav Ahuja, discusses a wide range of technical topics on DB2 XML.

• Application development:  DB2 Express-C: The Developer Handbook for XML, PHP, C/C++, Java and .Net.  This book, written by Whei-Jen Chen, John Chun, Naomi Ngan, Rakesh Ranjan, and Manoj K Sardana, provides many code samples and development guidelines. 

• Application Development (Java):  XML for Java Developers, with sections by Cynthia Saracco and Christine Law, is also available from DB2 Magazine and Quest Software.
• Mirgration: Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide - Converting to DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.  This book helps firms migrate from Oracle to DB2.  It includes a chapter dedicated to XML conversion topics.  The authors are:  Whei-Jen Chen, AnNa Choi, Arthur V Sammartino, Carlos Eduardo Abramo Pinto, Fraser McArthur, Marina Greenstein, Nora Sokolof, Scott J. Martin

Magazine and Journal Articles featuring DB2 pureXML

• A special issue of the IBM Systems Journal, Celebrating 10 Years of XML.
• The third quarter 2006 issue of DB2 Magazine
• The August 2006 issue of InfoWorld
• IBM Database Magazine, May 2008
  • XML Performance: A Surprising Ace in the Hole
  • Exploring pureXML in DB2 for z/OS

For More Information

DB2 XML product documentation is available in the DB2 Information Center

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