(Timothy Dyck) eWEEK and sister publication PC Magazine early last year published results of a comparative performance test of database servers. It had been almost a decade since either publication had performed a similar test, so we expected significant interest in the story. The actual response
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Microsoft Readies SBS 2003
(Peter Galli) Microsoft Corp. last week made available the release candidate for its Windows Small Business Server 2003, the latest product in the Windows Server 2003 family headed for release. The premium version will include technologies such as SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft’s Internet, Securit
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A Survey of APIs and Techniques for Processing XML
by Dare Obasanjo – This article provides an overview of the current landscape of techniques for processing XML and runs the gamut from discussing old mainstays, such as push model APIs and tree model APIs as exemplified by SAX and DOM, to newer participants in the XML world such as cursor APIs and p
Manipulate XML Data Easily with the XPath and XSLT APIs in the .NET Framework
How do the XPath navigator and the XSLT processor really work?
IBM Tests Web Services SLA Technology
By Darryl K. Taft – In a move that is critical to the delivery of Web services offerings, IBM is developing middleware to guarantee service levels. At the company’s T.J. Watson Research Center here, IBM is beta testing software developed through its Web Services Management Middleware project
Appending to XML with ASP
The third article in Michael Qualls’ series on using XML with ASP is here! This time around we check to see if the file already exists, and if it does, we append to it. Using this type of technique we’re actually creating a data construct similar to a database table.
XML Data Bindings in Python, Part 2
by Uche Ogbuji – In my last article I started a discussion of data bindings for Python with a close look at generateDS.py. This time I’ll look at another package, gnosis.xml.objectify from David Mertz’s Gnosis Utilities. Dave Kuhlman, developer of generateDS, has also written up a comparison of his
SELECT…FOR XML AUTO Results Are Separated into Lines of 2033 Chars with ODBC
When you use Query Analyzer (or any other ODBC application) to retrieve data using the FOR XML AUTO clause, only 2033 characters are returned per row. The application’s maximum output width setting cannot be used to make the rows longer.
Auditing Your SQL Server Environment Part I
(Randy Dyess) This article is the first of a series that I plan on writing and placing on my website to help other DBAs in auditing a new SQL Server environment. This article deals with determing which SQL Server logins have weak passwords, with the definition of weak being, no password, password th