Tag Archive: xmlindex unstructured component

Jan 17 2010

Structured XMLIndex (Part 3) – Building Multiple XMLIndex Structures

You will probably never build only one structured XMLIndex. A practical use case would be an unstructured XMLIndex, indexing the semi-structured parts of your XML, multiple structured XMLIndexes, indexing the highly structured XML islands of data and maybe even a Oracle Text Context index indexing unstructured XML data. So the next example’s will show how …

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Jan 17 2010

Structured XMLIndex (Part 2) – Howto build a structured XMLIndex

As said in the “rule of numb” post, test your statement before you build an XMLIndex (structured or unstructured) on you column or table XML store. The database will check on the syntax you will use but NOT on the outcome. So if you statement doesn’t have the proper result set or is even empty, …

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Jan 17 2010

Structured XMLIndex (Part 1) – Rules of Numb

Its time to get rid of some backlog about Oracle 11gR2 XML DB features. Ones of them is about the new Structured XMLIndex or also called XMLIndex Structured Component. So in Oracle 11gR2 you have the ability to use a “unstructured” XMLIndex (UXI) and a “structured” XMLIndex (SXI). The use cases for these global index …

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