by Piroz Mohseni – Parsers differ significantly in performance, reliability, and conformance to standards. This article compares the Xerces, Oracle and Sun parsers.
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Exploring XML and RSS in Flash
In this article we will examine the XML processing capabilities of Macromedia Flash, and create an RSS “movie” along the lines of the wildly popular RSS applet.
instpubs.sql :: (Script Library)
Category: Reporting and Analytics for SQL Server Tags: sql reports, sql reporting, sq Compatibility: SQL Server 7.x and later Description:
XHTML is the Most Important XML Vocabulary
by Kendall Grant Clark – Taking the long view of recent technology, XHTML may be the most important XML vocabulary ever created. What I mean is not that XHTML will be the most widely deployed XML vocabulary, though if we take the long view, it could be. What I mean is that XHTML puts XML’s reputatio
Beyond Integration
by Hitesh Seth – Even though interoperability and making systems and enterprises work together have been the main goals of XML and Web services technologies and standards, the quest for a better way to develop applications has led XML in another direction: around consuming XML/Web services to develo
Conversion of XML Data Types
Describes how the XmlConvert class performs strongly typed conversion of XML data.
SQL Server DTS Best Practices
By Vyas Kondreddi – Microsoft released Data Transformation Services (DTS) along with SQL Server 7.0. A very powerful, easy to use, graphical tool for importing, exporting and transforming data, which is only available as a costly add-on in other RDBMS products like Oracle. Prior to SQL Server 7.0, a
Moving entire SQL Server user databases
by Eli Leiba – Here are several procedures that you can use to “move” all of your user databases from one SQL Server to another with ease.
Row Count and Memory Utilization
Want to figure out how big your data tables are? SQL Server Magazine’s Brian Moran shows you how to query the system tables for this info without perform COUNT* functions on every table in the database.
The Power of Partitioning
By Dwaine R. Snow and Paul C. Zikopoulos – Misconceptions about partitioning in DB2 UDB abound. Experts from the Toronto Lab set the record straight about this useful feature.