By Roger Oney – Every developer is tasked with a different set of problems, but we all find ourselves with repetitive work. The challenge is to find a way to speed up the repetitive stuff so that we have a little more time to learn the new stuff."Extending Homesite when working with XML
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Dynamic Database Access from Client-Side JavaScri
by Donald Bales – Imagine the advantages of being able to dynamically access a database from client-side JavaScript. You could dynamically query a database from JavaScript for client-side field validation, or dynamically populate a drop-down select list, to name just a few possibilities. In fact, yo
Total record count per schema
By Rohit Sinha – This script counts the number of records in all tables in a particular schema in a particular instance:
Microsoft & Web Services (SOAP)
By Darshan Singh – In this article, we'll look at SOAP and Web services support in various Microsoft products. We'll create Web services using .NET Framework, SOAP Toolkit, and SQLXML 3.0. Next, we'll look at writing Web services clients using C#, Microsoft SOAP Toolkit, Office XP Web Se
Declaring Keys and Performing Lookups
by Bob DuCharme – When you need to look up values based on some other value — especially when your stylesheet needs to do it a lot — XSLT's xsl:key instruction and key() function work together to make it easy. They can also make it fast. To really appreciate the use of keys in XSLT, however, l
Multi-Table XML Processing
By Philip Quinn – I have already shown you how to do simple XML files (see RELATED ARTICLES) but what about more complex XML files? This article will show you how to process these files.
Oracle puts limits on new software pricing
By MARC L. SONGINI – Looking to assuage user concerns, Oracle Corp. finally offered details on its new flat-fee business applications pricing scheme, including a $250,000 minimum purchase requirement.Companies will also have to buy software licenses for at least 20% of their workers to quali
Bugs bust open ‘unbreakable’ Oracle 9i
By Robert Lemos – A security researcher will detail a bevy of software flaws in Oracle’s flagship database at the Black Hat Windows Security Briefings in New Orleans on Friday, busting up the company’s promise that the program is “unbreakable.”
Databinding with XML
By Philip Quinn – With XML becoming a prominent data source in ASP.NET and with more and more people using it, it only makes sense to be able to use it for databinding. This article is going to show you how to use an XML file to bind to several different controls.
Data binding with JAXB
By Daniel Steinberg – This tutorial shows how to use data binding to easily map data stored in XML documents to Java objects and back again. You start with a DTD and process it into Java source files. To customize this mapping you will create and modify a binding schema. Once you have a corresponden