Database Perspective

The Database perspective allows you to manage a database, offering support for browsing multiple connections at the same time, relational and native XML databases, SQL execution, XQuery execution and data export to XML. To switch the focus to this perspective, select the Database Debugger button in the top-right corner of Oxygen XML Editor or select Database from the Window > Open perspective menu.

This perspective offers support for the following databases:

Oracle Berkeley DB XML Database
eXist XML Database
IBM DB2 (Enterprise edition only)
JDBC-ODBC Bridge
MarkLogic (Enterprise edition only)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Enterprise edition only)
MySQL
Oracle 11g (Enterprise edition only)
PostgreSQL 8.3 (Enterprise edition only)
Documentum xDb (X-Hive/DB) 10 XML Database (Enterprise edition only)
Documentum (CMS) 6.5 (Enterprise edition only)

Note: For the databases marked with "Enterprise edition only", the XML capabilities are only available in the Enterprise edition of Oxygen XML Editor. The non-XML capabilities of any database listed here are available in the Enterprise, Academic, and Professional editions of Oxygen XML Editor by registering the database driver as a Generic JDBC type driver when defining the data source for accessing the database. For more information, see the Configuring Relational Database Data Sources or Configuring Native XML Database Data Sources sections.

The supported non-XML capabilities are as follows:

Browsing the structure of the database instance.
Opening a database table in the Table Explorer view.
Handling the values from XML Type columns as String values.

The supported XML capabilities are as follows:

Displaying an XML Schema node in the tree of the database structure (for databases with an XML-specific structure) with actions for opening, editing, and validating the schemas in an Oxygen XML Editor editor panel.
Handling the values from XML Type columns as XML instance documents that can be opened and edited in an Oxygen XML Editor editor panel.
Validating an XML instance document added to an XML Type (column of a table, etc.)

For a detailed feature matrix that compares the Academic, Professional, and Enterprise editions of Oxygen XML Editor go to the Oxygen XML Editor website.

Tip: Connections configured on relational data sources can be used to import data to XML or to generate XML schemas.

The layout of this perspective is composed of the following components:

Menus: Provides menu driven access to all the features and functions available in the XQuery Debugger.
Toolbars: Contains all actions needed in order to configure and control the debugging process. The toolbars can be configured to suit your specific needs.
Editor Pane: The main editing pane where you spend most of your time reading, editing, applying markup, and validating your documents.
Data Source Explorer View: Provides browsing support for the configured connections.
Table Explorer View: Provides table content editing support for inserting new rows, deleting table rows, editing cell values, exporting to an XML file, and more.