By Alorie Gilbert – Software executives from Siebel Systems and Oracle said Tuesday that they don’t expect businesses to be much more eager to buy software in 2003 than they are today.
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How to globally search and replace data in SQL Server databases
By Vyas Kondreddi – This article provides you with a simple stored procedure, that can search all the columns of all the tables in the current database, and replace a given search string with another string.
Track Changes to an XML Doc
by Dan Wahlin – Events play a crucial role in .NET. They’re used throughout the framework to provide notification to components about different activities that are occurring. For example, clicking on a Button control in an ASP.NET or Windows Forms application fires a click event that can be captured
Create flexible and extensible XML schemas
By Ayesha Malik – Developers experienced in Object Oriented Design (OOD) know that a flexible architecture ensures consistency throughout the system and helps accommodate growth and change. This instructional article uses an object-oriented framework to show you how to design XML schemas that are ex
XML and Web Sites
by John E. Simpson – In the USA this week’s calendar includes Halloween: a time when spooks, zombies, and assorted denizens of the realm of the undead are said to walk the earth. It seems an appropriate moment to tackle one of the most gruesome questions recently posted to the oreillynet.com XML for
CHECK It Out
By Itzik Ben-Gan – For accuracy and performance, you need to make sure that all IP addresses in your tables are valid. Here’s how to write a CHECK constraint that validates character strings containing IP addresses.
Performance Tuning for SQL Server Developers
Don’t think that performance tuning your SQL Server applications is regulated to the end of the development process. If you want your SQL Server-based applications to scale and run at their full potential, you must begin considering scalability and performance issues during the early stages of your
Inherit the Database
In this article, Steven Feuerstein, coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition, offers a quick review of object types and then shows how you can build “object type hierarchies” by taking advantage of inheritance.
Who is Using Which Rollback?
by Andrew Allen – Sometimes we need (or want) to know who is using rollback and how much they are using. This script will show you who is using which rbs, how much rollback they are using, their sid/serial, and, optionally, when their session began and when they were last active in the database.
XML-Packed Office 11 Goes Into Beta Testing
The next release of Microsoft Office, intended to be a more corporate-focused version of the company’s productivity application suite, has been delivered to a few thousand early beta testers, Microsoft Corp. said last week.Code-named Office 11, the software is being designed to include wide