By Ayesha Malik – Developers experienced in Object Oriented Design (OOD) know that a flexible architecture ensures consistency throughout the system and helps accommodate growth and change. This instructional article uses an object-oriented framework to show you how to design XML schemas that are ex
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Track Changes to an XML Doc
by Dan Wahlin – Events play a crucial role in .NET. They’re used throughout the framework to provide notification to components about different activities that are occurring. For example, clicking on a Button control in an ASP.NET or Windows Forms application fires a click event that can be captured
How to globally search and replace data in SQL Server databases
By Vyas Kondreddi – This article provides you with a simple stored procedure, that can search all the columns of all the tables in the current database, and replace a given search string with another string.
Oracle, Siebel execs see tough 2003
By Alorie Gilbert – Software executives from Siebel Systems and Oracle said Tuesday that they don’t expect businesses to be much more eager to buy software in 2003 than they are today.
Oracle upgrades Java tools
By Mike Ricciuti – Oracle has revamped its development tools with support for the latest Java and Web services standards.The database software company has released Oracle9i JDeveloper version 9.0.3, a revised toolset that now includes support for the latest Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1
Microsoft extends analytical tools for SQL Server
By James Niccolai – Microsoft Corp. has released new tools for its SQL Server database that should make it easier for its partners to create data analysis applications for their customers in the financial services and manufacturing industries, the software maker said Monday.
Changing the Database Owner (dbo) Account to System Administrator (sa)
The sa account is always mapped to dbo, even when sa is not the real database owner. The dbo account is the login that the sysdatabases system table in the master database displays, as the sp_helpdb system stored procedure shows. Yes, you can change the dbo to the sa from the Windows NT login.
.NET GUI Bliss: Streamline Your Code and Simplify Localization Using an XML-Based GUI Language Parser
In this article, Paul DiLascia shows how to develop an XML-based GUI language parser for .NET that lets you code resources, menus, toolbars, and status bars in XML instead of with procedural code. He also shows how a user interface based on XML can easily be localized using standard .NET techniques,
XML and databases
By Nicolas Farges – In this article we shall look at the key points that will enable us to determine the role of XML with regard to databases, and to pinpoint the opportunities for acquiring a native XML database.
XML-Packed Office 11 Goes Into Beta Testing
The next release of Microsoft Office, intended to be a more corporate-focused version of the company’s productivity application suite, has been delivered to a few thousand early beta testers, Microsoft Corp. said last week.Code-named Office 11, the software is being designed to include wide