by Kendall Grant Clark – Periodically, it falls to me to investigate the state of the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG). For a geeky journalist, or for anyone who cares about the infrastructure of the Web broadly conceived, watching the TAG can be an incredibly efficient use of one’s time. So
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Use WSDL to Generate Web Services
by Kevin Jones – In addition to dynamic WSDL generation, the open source toolkit Axis offers a special “wrapped code generation” mode. See how Axis decides to use wrapped or unwrapped code generation based on WSDL format.
Database Impact of Collecting Statistics in Oracle
By James Koopmann – Oracle has given us a new parameter STATISTICS_LEVEL for collecting database statistics. James Koopmann takes a deeper look at what to expect from your database system when this parameter is set and statistics are being gathered.
Oracle Has SQL Server Beat in Stored Procedure Programming
Oracle9i and SQL Server 2000 add enhancements to the standard SQL language that enable you to use the database to implement your business rules and processes—SQL Server with Transact-SQL and Oracle with PL/SQL. Find out why the Oracle database engine is better suited for this role.
ASP.NET Web Services Techniques
In this article, you’ll learn about the following ASP.NET Web Services concepts:
64-Bit SQL Server Hits the Streets
By Brian Moran – SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) might not see the inside of your company anytime soon–if ever. But just the fact that such a powerful version exists is noteworthy.
Get Set for Web Services Now
By Joe McKendrick – Will Web services ever move from vaporware to reality? Web services has been the “in” topic of vendors’ announcements, analysts’ pronouncements, and trade press articles for some time. While the complete technology architecture has not been implemented in any meaningful way in pr
OLAP for Developers
This intro to OLAP for developers from SQL Server Magazine shows you how to implement drillthrough and actions in SQL Analysis Services.
SYWARE’s sqlceEnable Software Adds Mobile Reporting and Printing Interface to SQL Server CE Databases
SYWARE, Inc., a leading developer of intuitive, mobile database tools for business and personal productivity, announced sqlceEnable™, a new software tool that allows mobile professionals to create and print custom reports from any Pocket PC or Windows CE device using data from SQL Server CE database
JavaCC, parse trees, and the XQuery grammar, Part 1
by Howard Katz – After a brief discussion of grammars, parsers, and BNF, this article introduces JavaCC, a popular parser generator tool. You’ll develop sample code that uses JavaCC to build a custom parser, starting from a BNF description of the grammar. Part 2 goes on to show how to use an auxilli