eWEEK Labs recently conducted a roundtable discussion on Web services. Moderated by Technology Editor Peter Coffee, the roundtable comprised key players in several areas of the Web services space. The discussion centered on where Web services are as a technology, where the industry is in achieving e
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Discover a Powerful Set of Classes for Manipulating XML Data
Learn how .NET Framework’s classes and associated tools for manipulating XML data can be woven together to form an impressive array of options for constructing XML processing solutions.
Self-Enhancing Stylesheets
by Manfred Knobloch – Developing new stylesheets can be a chore. It would be nice if you could tell your stylesheet to trace which tags from the source document are not yet processed by xsl:template elements. And why not make your stylesheet write an xsl:template match skeleton for each unhandled ta
Analyzing Money
By Russ Whitney – Working with any OLAP solution can help you better understand the technology, but using data that has personal meaning can help you learn even more about OLAP. Here’s a practice solution that uses data you’ll care about–your personal finances.
Speed SQL Server Data Access
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Creating Web services on Windows to access DB2
By Quentin Presley – Interested in making DB2 data available through the use of Web services? This tutorial shows you the steps to create two stored procedures and then convert the stored procedures into Web services that access DB2 data. The Web services will provide insert capability, and the capa
Making Business Intelligence Work: Start-to-Finish Guidance for Managers
by Mike Biere – In Making Business Intelligence Work, IBM expert Mike Biere shows managers how to create and implement a coherent BI plan that reflects users needs. Biere identifies solutions for obstacles that cause many business intelligence projects to fail. The book covers how to set appropriate
V8 Update on Java Programming in DB2 UDB
Toronto Lab experts give you the latest and greatest on what you need to know about Java programming in DB2 UDB v8.
Create More Efficient Database Code
by Dino Esposito – Take a look under the hood of the SQL Server .NET Data Provider and discover how it can help you improve your ADO.NET code.
Book Excerpt: Database Access with Visual Basic.NET, 3rd Edition
by Jeffrey McManus and Jackie Goldstein – This book provides real-world solutions to the data-access issues VB.NET developers face every day and shares the authors’ secrets for becoming a more effective database programmer using .NET technologies. Chapter 8 explains the use of Visual Studio Database