by Bob DuCharme – Any manipulation of XML documents, whether with XSLT or not, often involves cleaning up the documents. Perhaps some company sends XML data to your company, and while it may be valid XML, it still needs to be beaten into shape a bit before your systems can use it.Dealing wit
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Creating a Consolidated Information System
by Walt Jordan – Multek is an international supplier of cell phone boards, backplanes and Internet servers, switches and hubs and other printed circuit board (PCB) technologies. With a global network of companies in The Americas, Europe, and Asia, it offers its customers a broad spectrum of PCB engi
Class Loading in J2EE and Oracle9iAS Environments
By Bryan Atsatt and Debu Panda – This article looks at how class loading works, both in a standard J2SE environment and in more-complex J2EE environments such as OC4J.
Introduction to SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: Parent-Child Dimensions
The fourth article in the advanced SQL series ‘Introduction to MS SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services’ examines another special type of dimension, the Parent-Child dimension, and explores the attributes that make it different from a regular dimension. The article also discusses the considerations that
Index Range Scan for “ename like ‘%EIL'”
by Vadim Tropashko – Description: An index range scan is routinely used when querying a name by a name prefix. It is also not unusual to query by a postfix:
DB2 replication to SQL Server 2000
Answered by Michael Hotek – I neet to get a DB2 Database replicated to SQL Server 2000. I have an OLE Connection and Data Bindings. But even though I have set up a pull subscription through SQLDMO, I can’t seem to get it working.
Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate
By Paul Prescod – What problem are web services trying to solve? It sounds like it should be an easy question to answer but web services are seldom described in terms of their problem domain. The general gist of most definitions seems to be “Web Services allow programs written in different languages
Web-developer’s perspective on power of “Well-Formed Web”
Joe Gregorio describes how adding XML to the Web might be enough to open some powerful new possibilities.
XML to Drive Office Update
By Peter Galli – The next version of Microsoft Corp.’s Office productivity suite will come with XML support baked into Word, allowing users to, among other things, more effectively mine their data.
SQL Server string parser
By Alena Willis – This function can be used to filter sets of data with lists (strings) from any kind of application/Web. I personally use the table that is created to make joins with it on one or more datasets for the purpose of filtering. This function is also useful when modified slightly when yo