by Alan Kotok – XML has spawned a number of new initiatives to improve the way enterprises, including government and not-for-profit organizations, do business. A meeting held on 24 April 2001 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D,C focused on applying XML to the process of crafting legislation, with the
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SQL Server 2000 trial software
Obtain the SQL Server 2000 trial software*—and explore how to build the next generation of scalable Web applications. As a part of the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, SQL Server 2000 offers you scalability for the most demanding environments. SQL Server 2000 dramatically reduces your time to brin
An Introduction to Triggers — Part I
A trigger is a database object that is attached to a table. In many aspects it is similar to a stored procedure. As a matter of fact, triggers are often referred to as a "special kind of stored procedure." The main difference between a trigger and a stored procedure is that the former is att
XML group to create specifications for voting systems
By TODD R. WEISS – Six months after the tumultuous presidential balloting in Florida, a nonprofit technical consortium yesterday announced that it has formed a committee to develop a specialized XML standard aimed at improving the accuracy and efficiency of elections.
Is XPointer too big?
By Simon St.Laurent – In a minority opinion, Eve Maler and Paul Grosso suggest that "that XPointer would benefit from offering the option of a much more modest feature set." Maler and Grosso propose something much smaller than the complete XPointer proposal, "along the lines o
Reports from WWW10
by Edd Dumbill – Last week I attended the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference in Hong Kong, the most important annual conference for developers, academics, and publishers working with the Web. This article is a collection of reports written from the conference.
SSCodeGen
If you work with either Microsoft SQL Server™ 7.0 or 2000 , we think we can make a difference to your development timescales. Our SSCodeGen software quickly generates code from your database definitions. It is intended to be a no frills, developers toolbox, providing a quick, easy to understand mean
Creating Visual Basic Applications Using SQL Server
Here is a list of Performance Tuning Tips for Creating Visual Basic Applications Using SQL Server.
XML Schema Taking Root
by Demir Barlas, Line56 – After two years of research and development, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommended the adoption of XML Schema, its pet specification of the XML protocol. A W3C release laid out up some of the technical and practical advantages of XML Schema. Of particul
Bleeding edge XML at XTech 2001
Here's your chance to share ideas and code with the best XML developers at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention this summer. Proposals are invited for 30-minute talks covering the very latest developments in XML technology and open source software. These program slots have been lef