By Michael Otey – After more than a year’s delay, Intel recently released its Itanium chip to OEMs such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), and IBM, making 64-bit Wintel systems a reality. To coincide with the initial Itanium release, Microsoft in the third quarter is providing two 64-bit versions of Win
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Support WebCast: XML and Microsoft .NET
Tuesday, October 9, 2001: 10:00 A.M. Pacific daylight time – XML is everywhere in Microsoft .NET, and this session will explain what that really means. We will discuss how the .NET platform and components are integrated by XML. We will also talk about what classes and API you can use in .NET Framewo
ElfData XML Editor 1.11 for OSX/Classic
XML Editor is a clean, simple and powerful graphical XML editing and validation tool. It features full DTD validation, but doesn't require a DTD if you only want to do well-formedness validation. It gives meaningful messages that point you a conflict with the XML to the DTD, and tell you why you
Valid Frustrations
by John E. Simpson – Q: I need help with two DTD questions…I am having trouble with a DTD not enforcing some rules I'm trying to create. Rule 1: Enforce a range of occurrences of one element inside another.
Essential Skills for Microsoft Business Intelligence
Microsoft offers a powerful set of Business Intelligence tools. They are easy to use, but people need to learn about them in order to use them effectively. We believe our class will give you the ability to successfully implement Business Intelligence in your organization.
Useful Things to Do with SELECT
By Michael Otey – The T-SQL SELECT statement is the primary tool for retrieving data from SQL Server, but SELECT also has several other interesting uses. Here are seven useful things that you can do with SELECT besides returning rowsets to your application.
XML Divided
by Edd Dumbill – Over the last six months, the downturn in the tech sector has dampened many a wild and hopeful grab for dot-com glory, and we're now faced with the prospect of an even more widespread economic malaise. So there are points of inflection in our comprehension of the world ar
Combining files into an RDF model, and basic RDF querying
This Thinking XML column shows how to combine metadata collected from multiple XML source documents into a single Resource Description Framework (RDF) model for effective querying. In this follow-up to his previous installment that introduced how to use XML and RDF together for knowledge management,
Submission deadlines for XML 2001 loom, XML Asia Pacific
Those wishing to submit late-breaking news or vendor presentations for IDEAlliance's XML 2001 conference must do so by October 1.
ActiveX : Active Query
Active Query allows you to include end user oriented SQL query builder into your application. Your users receive the ultimate ability to build their own queries and it is not necessary for them to understand your database design or table relationships. They do not see real tables and real field name