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Using Application Roles

SQL Server contains two kinds of roles: standard roles and applicaton roles. Standard roles function like groups. For standard roles, users are assigned to the roles and then permissions are granted to those roles. Both types of roles can be created using the Enterprise Manager.

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A Web Services Primer

by Venu Vasudevan – Looking back over the last six years, it is hard to imagine networked computing without the Web. The reason why the Web succeeded where earlier hypertext schemes failed can be traced to a couple of basic factors: simplicity and ubiquity. From a service provider's (e.g. an e-s

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A Brief History of SOAP

by Don Box – It's been a little more than three years since I first started working in XML in general and SOAP in particular. For the past year or so, my own SOAP work has been pretty minimal, mainly because without a stable XML Schema specification, the thought of building tons of SOAP support

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XML & Binary Data

XML solves varieties of problems. Keep in mind that XML is not only for web. It can be used for virtually any kind of application – depends on your imagination. It's best suited to pass data across machines running different platform/operating system, because everybody understands plain text