(Dan Wahlin) The video discusses how to create a Web Service from scratch but also discusses some of the pros and cons that you should know about. For example, many people will return a DataSet from a Web Service. While that works, it is not very interoperable with non-.NET clients since the generat
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An XQuery Servlet for RESTful Data Services
(Jonathan Robie) Many web applications exchange data as XML, but that data is usually stored in and queried from relational databases, CRM, ERP, proprietary repositories, and a hodgepodge of other systems. Unfortunately, the languages most commonly used for creating or processing data on the web wer
SQL Server 2005, Part III: Magic of Structured Search
(Alex Weinstein) You were patient enough to read through my ramblings about why Yukon and InfoPath are a match made in heaven, and how to set up basic interop. But these two articles left you dreaming of more. Well, that was their purpose :-).
.NET Hang Case Study: The GC-Loader Lock Deadlock (a story of mixed mode dlls)
(Tess Ferrandez) I’m sorry I haven’t had a chance to write much lately because of a lot of different reasons. I moved houses and at the same time I started writing some managed debugging scripts for debugdiag 1.1 to allow it to automatically catch a lot of the issues that I’ve been writing about be
Ordering Events in Oracle
(Steve Callan) One of Oracle’s most critical and important functions is how it keeps track of events. Even within a single processor, “simple” database system, keeping track of events is just as important as recording and maintaining the proper order of events in a distributed system. Recording the
Test XML queries interactively in Oracle 10gR2 SQL*Plus
(Bob Watkins) XML has become a common standard for information interchange. XQuery 1.0 is a standard language for querying data expressed in XML form. It is often called the SQL of XML because it performs the same function for XML that the SQL language does for relational data.
Understanding DOM
(Nicholas Chase) Even before there was XML, there was the Document Object Model, or DOM. It allows a developer to refer to, retrieve, and change items within an XML structure, and is essential to working with XML. In this tutorial, you will learn about the structure of a DOM document. You will also
So Where Is PureXML for DB2/400?
(Timothy Prickett Morgan) With much fan-fare last week, IBM rolled out its “Viper” database technology into the version of DB2 for its z/OS-based mainframes. Viper is not just a relational database, which can store information in the traditional format that is friendly to SQL and other query methods
Straighten Out Your Strings
(Billy Hollis) The most common type of data to manipulate in most applications is textual data, which developers usually store in strings. String handling has always been a strong point for the Basic family of languages, and the .NET version of Visual Basic gives you quite a few new tricks for manip
Native XML in Relational Databases – Oracle XMLDB, Part 2
(Edmon Begoli) Continuing on review of the Oracle’s XMLDB native XML features. In this entry I will look at some pros and cons of this product. I am still in a learning phase of Oracle XMLDB therefore my assessment of its pros and cons will be subjective and somehow incomplete. Think of this entry a