by Alexander Chigrik – Learn how to troubleshoot common full-text search problems.
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VoiceXML making Web heard in call centers
By Ann Bednarz and Phil Hochmuth – Aspect Communications this week will announce call center software that essentially will enable users to navigate Web content via voice commands.
Implementing Microsoft® .NET Web Services
By Jeannine Hall Gailey – This book introduces developers to the XML services architecture and prepares them for the opportunities opened up by Microsoft .NET My Services.
Of Grouping, Counting, and Context
John Simpon explains XSLT keys and the count() function.
Read Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-040
An unchecked buffer in MDAC leaves SQL Server systems vulnerable to a buffer overrun attack. The latest security patch to MDAC fixes this problem for MDAC 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7.
Synch of the spiderman
By David Berlind – Like many pundits of handheld computing, Landry believes in the mobile mantra that “synch is everything.” In that context, “synch” refers to the solid, reliable, and accurate synchronization of desktop- and server-bound data to handheld devices. “The problem” Landry says, ”
How to troubleshoot orphan users in SQL Server databases?
By Vyas Kondreddi – This article explains how orphan users get created, and provides you with troubleshooting information. A bonus stored procedure called ShowOrphanUsers is included, that goes and searches all the databases and generates a complete list of orphan users.
Java Performance Tuning
Book By Jack Shirazi – No matter what language they’re programming in, developers always wish things would run faster! Especially when writing mission-critical applications, no one wants to be limited by the programming environment. Java Performance Tuning provides all the details you need to
XML, Part 1: XML and Namespaces
By Heath Stewart – I’m sure by now that you’ve heard a lot about XML and about how great it is. You might be wondering, though, what is XML? In part 1 on this series on XML tutorials, beginning and intermediate users will learn the answer to that question, along with what namespaces are and how XML
Adventures in high-performance XML persistence, Part 1
By Cameron Laird – XML storage is too sprawling a topic to offer easy answers. There’s no one fastest XML database, nor fastest XML processing language. Still, it’s helpful to understand the basic concepts of XML persistence so you can apply them to your specific situation. This article begins a new