This white paper discusses the architectural issues encountered when using opaque non-XML data in XML applications, including (but not limited to) Web services and SOAP.
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By Vyas Kondreddi – This article shows you how to identify SQL Server performance problems and explains how the SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level effected the performance of an OLTP application.
Certification still pays, says study
By Lisa Kelly – Bonuses rise to eight per cent of base salary – if you have those letters after your name. Workers are more likely to receive bigger bonuses if they have technology certifications than if they rely on skills based on knowledge or experience, according to a new survey.
Alternative Aggregations
By Russ Whitney – Analysis Services natively supports many aggregation types, but sometimes you need to perform an aggregation that native types can’t handle. Here are some ways you can use non-native aggregation types to solve real-life calculation problems.
Pipelined Table Function
by Claudiu Ariton – The purpose of this code is to provide an example of the new pipelined and parallel PL/SQL table functions available in Oracle9i Database.
Oracle’s Souder Talks Distributed Databases
By Barbara Darrow – Some might say Benny Souder’s title, vice president of distributed database development at Oracle, is an oxymoron. After all, Oracle sure seems wants everything in the world to be in one huge (Oracle) database. At least that’s what Microsoft and IBM say. That’s even what O
Antenna House XSL Formatter plug-in for XML Spy 5
XSL Formatter plug-in for xmlspy® 5 is available free of charge for all users of XSL Formatter V2.4. It’s an add-on connection module for xmlspy. It offers the combination of both the formatting function of XSL Formatter and the editor function of xmlspy to format XSL-FO document. The component is d
Generate XML Mapping Code with JAXB
If you write any DOM or SAX code, you need to learn Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB). It rapidly generates XML mapping code for you, saving time and effort, and reducing both costs and risks. JAXB is a specification for a set of APIs and tools that generate java classes based on the domain m
Kicking back with RELAX NG, Part 1
RELAX NG schemas provide a more powerful, more concise, and semantically more straightforward means of describing classes of valid XML instances than do W3C XML Schemas. The virtue of RELAX NG is that it extends the well-proven semantics of DTDs while allowing orthogonally extensible datatypes and e
SQL Server administration dos and don’ts
by Meredith B. Derby – Erickson, director of product management for SQL at San Jose, Calif.-based NetIQ, Corp., outlined several dos and don’ts for SQL Server management. NetIQ announced its new SQL Server Management Suite on Feb. 4. The suite contains three new products: Configuration Manager, Reco