By Michael Otey – A shake-up in the database market has yielded a new database champ in terms of new license revenue: IBM. But on the fast-growing Windows platform, SQL Server claims the number-one spot and shows no signs of slowing.
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What’s Next for HTML?
by Micah Dubinko – HTML has always been the predominant data format of the Web, and it has influenced the design of nearly every XML vocabulary ever written. So it’s a little disappointing to see the languid adoption of XHTML, which takes HTML from its SGML heritage into the world of XML. Partly thi
Beta Benefits
By Brian Moran – Do you have a passion for technology? Do you enjoy helping the technical community you work in? Have you wanted to participate in a SQL Server beta program but don’t know how to get involved? You can serve your passion and your community by nominating yourself for consideration as a
Open-Source SQL Database Gains .Net Interfaces
MySQL AB, the Swedish developer of the open-source MySQL database, said Wednesday it now supports Microsoft .Net through several optional interfaces, meaning developers can use the popular Microsoft tools to build client/server applications for the database.
SQL Server Configuration Performance Checklist
by Brad M. McGehee – This fourth part of the SQL Server Performance Audit series covers the SQL Server configuration settings.
Adding Columns in a Synchronous Multi-Master Replicated Environment
by Greg Johnson – The following is a guide for adding a column to a table that is currently in a synchronous multi-master replicated environment. This guide assumes that the replicated environment has already been created.
The Fusion of Perl and Oracle
Andy Duncan explains that Perl’s symbiosis with the Oracle database helped in constructing the Perl DBA Toolkit, and he ponders what Ayn Rand might have thought of these two strange bedfellows. Andy is a coauthor of Perl for Oracle DBAs.
Serve Business Graphics from Any XML Source
by Laurence Moroney – Defining data in XML and parsing it in XPath gives you considerable flexibility in presenting business data graphically. Learn how to write a chart server that creates dynamic business graphics from any XML source—in either Java or VB.NET.
Standards Orgs Sign on as OASIS UBL Liaisons
Various leading organizations affirm their faith in UBL — the XML language to facilitate global e-commerce.
Microsoft retooling Visual Studio.Net
The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said it plans to revamp its tools to work with new products expected to ship in the coming months. Those products include Windows.Net Server, the next version of Microsoft’s server operating system, and an upcoming release of the company’s SQL Server database,