In this article, you’ll learn about XPath and how to use it in .NET applications. The Microsoft .NET Framework supports XPath 1.0 W3C recommendation. The classes in System.Xml and System.Xml.XPath namespaces allow executing XPath queries and working with the result sets. Before we look at these clas
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DB Updates Ease Web Services
By Lisa Vaas – Best-of-breed XML database developers Ipedo Inc., Sonic Software Corp. and Sleepycat Software Inc. are enhancing their respective native XML database software to make it easier for enterprises to use and manage XML data in Web services environments.
IBM to Ship DB2 Information Integrator
By Lisa Vaas – IBM will announce general availability of its much-heralded DB2 Information Integrator software on Tuesday, at the same time that Striva Corp. announces that it will extend Information Integrator by enabling it to access mainframe data sources.
Connectivity Kit for IBM DB2 Universal DataBase
Data Access Worldwide has announced that the latest revisions of the DataFlex Connectivity Kits (revision 2.2) for MS-SQL, IBM DB2 and ODBC have been released. We encourage developers who are currently using these Connectivity Kits to upgrade to revision 2.2 in order to take advantage of the latest
Who needs DB2’s Incremental Delta Backup?
By Marin Komadina – Learn how to organize and perform a delta incremental database backup in DB2.
Cloning Data Accurately and Randomly
This task of data cloning is quite common in any testing or tuning environment. Obviously, it requires some technique to automate it.
Mapping Parallel Coordidate Query to Its Slave Queries
This tip comes from Wayne Zhu is a Sr. Database Administrator in Philadelphia, PA.
Compare two SQL Server tables
(Preethiviraj Kulasingham) – If you need to compare the data in two tables — either from the same database or from different databases or even from different servers — this procedure can help. (R)
ASP.NET Controls Templates
It is easy to create a custom control in ASP.NET by deriving a new class from an already existing control. Creating a new ASP.NET control from scratch, on the other hand, is more challenging. When you need a Web server control and none of the existing ones meet your requirements, you can derive from
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3 Security Features and Best Practices
Get security recommendations on Microsoft® SQL Server™ installation, administration, and deployment, and dig into the details of the SQL Server security model. This paper applies to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3). It is intended for administrators and developers.