(Elisa Gabbert) As a way of staking its leadership in the area, Oracle announced yesterday that over 100 commercial and open source applications are using its semantic Web technology. (R)
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Using Meta Tags with Master Pages in ASP.NET
(Jim Azar) The Master Pages introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 are a great feature, however, they don’t provide a good way to perform the most basic search engine optimization. If you want your web pages to be listed properly and ranked well in search engines, then you need to specify good titles and meta ta
Character-based string functions in DB2 9
(Kiran Nair and Saji Kumar) This article provides you with an overview of the new character-based string functions in IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It first explains key concepts, such as character and byte semantics with respect to string data. Then it discusses why you need these functio
Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio (Part 1)
(Steve Cook, Gareth Jones, Stuart Kent, Alan Cameron Wills and Alan Cameron Wills) This book describes the Microsoft Domain-Specific Language Tools (the DSL Tools). The DSL Tools are part of the Visual Studio SDK, and may be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/DSLTools/. The DSL Tools
32- vs 64-bit Computing for SQL Server
(Buck Woody) In a way, the computing industry is a lot like the automotive industry. I’ll probably need to explain that.
FIX: The result may be sorted in the wrong order when you run a query that uses the ORDER BY clause to sort a column in a table in SQL Server 2000
Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you run a query that uses the ORDER BY clause to sort a column in a table. The table has an index. In this scenario, the result may be sorted in the wrong order.
Eliminate SQL Injection Attacks Painlessly with LINQ
(Jason Schmitt) As web application security breaches and attempts rise, developers are increasingly being asked to take more responsibility for the security of their applications, and application framework vendors are building more robust security features into their platform software. Many develope
Some personal opinions/observations about the performance of DB2 V8 Multi-row FETCH
(Willie Favero) It’s Thursday night and I should be home getting ready to pour a glass of red wine (preferably a Cab) and watch some mindless, completely non-educational television. But instead, I’m stuck at some hotel about a mile from Love Field in Dallas. Why you ask? I’m stuck here tonight becau
Will XML Appliances Usurp ESB? Opinions Vary
(Loraine Lawson) Recently, I shared how a next-generation ERP company had integrated an ESB into its new product, which was subscription-based and delivered over the Internet. The model showed great promise for delivering on-demand, virtual integration.
XML Editor and XSLT Debugging in Orcas
(Julia Lerman) In my eagerness to learn all about Entity Framework, I have paid no attention to the improvements to XML in Orcas. While LINQ to XML is getting a lot of notice, there are improvements to the XML tools that are definitely worthy of some attention!