Other News

Community

Integration Models

(Brian Travis and Mae Ozkan) The integration models we have today are either loosely coupled or tightly coupled. They are message-based or method-based. They are synchronous or asynchronous. Putting these things together in an intelligent way is essential if you are going to archive the promise of w

Community

Microsoft Windows Code Name

Well here we are, the moment we have all been waiting for. The PDC has finally [come and gone], and with it so has Longhorn Pre-Beta build 4051. There are many new things in this build that are worth checking out as well as a few disappointments we’d like to express. The main goal of this tweak guid

Community

XML in Unexpected Places

(Eugene Kuznetsov) It is a welcome sign of XML’s success that it increasingly appears in unexpected places and concerns an everbroadening set of people. Those of you who were involved with XML technology in the early days or who bravely pioneered XML in your organizations years ago may be bewildered

Community

Constraints and Triggers

Constraints are declarations of conditions about the database that must remain true. These include attributed-based, tuple-based, key, and referential integrity constraints. The system checks for the violation of the constraints on actions that may cause a violation, and aborts the action accordingl