XML is a markup language, used to format data in a wide variety of applications. It is commonly used as a message format for application integration (e.g. XML messages exchanged between applications, with those applications implementing an XML based API). Somewhat less commonly, it is used as a document format, to tag information in a platform independent manner. Starting in Teradata Database version 14.10, XML is supported as a native SQL data type.

Querying XML

Teradata XML Services (TXS) extends the database’s XML capabilities focusing on transforming data between its XML and relational representations. Two key components of XML Services are: