By Peter Galli – Some Microsoft Corp. customers who run Windows server software are expressing disappointment over the company’s pricing plan for the upcoming Windows Server 2003.
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Using Topic Maps to Extend Relational Databases
by Marc de Graauw – Topic Maps provide a very flexible and robust way to add arbitrary data to a relational databases at runtime. Moreover, Topic Maps come with a predefined exchange mechanism (the XML Topic Maps (XTM) interchange syntax) to allow data to be exported to XML.
Extend the DataGrid
by Dan Wahlin – The powerful DataGrid control helps you display and collect data in a Web application. Download a sample app that shows how to extend its functionality and bind XML to it.
SOAP author says enough specs already
By James Niccolai – A Microsoft Corp. engineer had harsh words this week for vendors contributing to the plethora of Web services specifications, and advised developers to read less of them and get on with writing applications.
Toward a More Perfect Union
By David Kelly – Application integration consistently ranks as one of the top three concerns of CIOs in Morgan Stanley’s monthly surveys of Fortune 1000 IT executives. Possessing the ability to respond more quickly to business change, connecting more closely with partners and customers, and squeezin
Super SQL Server
By Brian Moran – The most recent TPC-C score for SQL Server on Windows should give organizations the confidence that SQL Server on Windows can meet their businesses’ performance needs as well as or better than anything UNIX offers.
Comparing timestamps
(Baya Pavliashvili) If you’re unfamiliar with the TIMESTAMP data type in SQL Server, be forewarned: its name is rather misleading. The truth is that TIMESTAMP has absolutely nothing to do with date or time. This data type is used to track the sequence of row modifications within a table. The TIMESTA
SQL Server Upgrade Recommendations and Best Practices Part 1: Upgrade Overview and Project Planning
by Jeremy Kadlec – First in a series of new articles on how to best upgrade SQL Server.
Tony Bain answers the 64-bit questions
By Ellen O’Brien – Microsoft says that SQL Server’s ability to run on the latest 64-bit microprocessors is evidence that it can compete with top-dog systems, such as Oracle databases on the Unix platform. Tony Bain, author of several SQL Server books, including the soon-to-be-released text on SQL Se
Let There Be Light
By Mario Morejon – It is widely acknowledged that database prices, especially those for large-scale projects, are simply too high. What database vendors are charging for their wares often doesn’t reflect the more aggressive price adjustments undertaken during the past year by many other high-end mid