By Tom Sullivan – WITH ITS FIRST iteration of Visual Studio .Net now just over six months old, Microsoft on Thursday began revealing details of the next version as well as an upgrade to the .Net Framework. As part of its strategy to make Web services pervasive throughout its entire software s
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Front To Back, Oracle Targets Wireless
By Bryan Morgan – Despite building a corporate reputation based on its back-office database, a look at the company’s current product offerings makes it clear Oracle has made a wholesale commitment to move far beyond the IT server facility. A work in progress since 1999, Oracle now offers a suite of
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Notification Services Released
This new high-performance platform enables you to build scalable notification applications on SQL Server that generate custom messages.
Unisys taps Microsoft to bring BI to masses
By Heather Harreld – UNISYS WILL WORK together with Microsoft, SAP, SAS, ProClarity, and others to build an integrated BI ( business intelligence) solution designed to further leverage the massive amounts of data companies collect and need to analyze, according to an announcement from Unisys on Wedn
Safe Transit
By Kalen Delaney – When you move a backup of a SQL Server database from one server to another, you encounter some specific challenges. A common problem is that in the restore process, usernames and login names can be mismatched. Let’s look at why usernames and login names are important, why mismatch
UDDI should flourish under OASIS
By Dave Kearns – Microsoft, IBM and the other ad-hoc ” trustees ” of the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) initiative have finally found a standards body to take the technology under its wing. To no one’s surprise, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Infor
HOW TO: Use OPENXML with an XML file
This FAQ uses the example from books online titled “Sample Visual Basic Application to Update Records Using OPENXML and ADO”. It has been modified to use an XML file instead of XML text.The application is based on the assumption that the client has an XML document (created with some other ap
OScon 2002 Perl and XML Review
by Kip Hampton – This month, in place of the module introduction or other technical tutorial that usually appears here, I want to offer a few observations about the state of Perl-XML World in general, based on my experiences at the recent OScon 2002.
Transposing a Table into a Summary Matrix
(Fred Mayer) I needed a PL/SQL routine to summarize and transpose, and I came up short. So I decided to see if I could get it accomplished myself. The resulting procedure, TRANSPOSE, accomplishes this task for me.Here’s how it works: Pass the Source User, Source Table Name, Destination Table
SQL Server 2000 Developer Series
LearnKey’s SQL Server 2000 for Developers offers developers, programmers, webmasters, and managers an in-depth look at this powerful product. Experts Mary Chipman and Andy Baron show you the essentials of using the Transact-SQL language and SQL Server’s graphical tools to perform all the tasks neces