Book by Neil Pike – The book includes over 500 questions and answers for all versions of SQL Server 6.5, 7.0 and 2000. For the most part, the topics covered are commonly asked questions about SQL Server that were not adequately documented in the documentation provided by Microsoft. Neil Pike is a Mi
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Two Backup Windows
By Michael Otey – How do you deal with a backup time window that’s closing—whether you want it to or not—and a backup security window that you need to keep closed at all times?
Oracle’s Supply-Chain Integration Message Plays Well, But Will Customers Ever Invest?
By Tom Smith – Enterprise software giant Oracle this week rolled out a slew of new supply-chain software applications geared toward meeting big enterprises’ execution, collaboration, and business-intelligence requirements.
Oracle Joins UCCnet, Unveils TopLink Roadmap
By Michael Singer – Oracle Wednesday advanced its position in the database universe with a rollout of a new product and participation in a growing standards group.
Yukon Ho! SQL Server v.Next
Mary Chipman and Andy Baron – Find out how the next version of SQL Server (code named “Yukon”) will affect the way you write code.
MySQL Takes On Enterprise Databases
By Richard Karpinski – Does an open-source database provider really have a prayer against Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft? Believe it.
Make Your XML RDF-Friendly
by Bob DuCharme, John Cowan – As RDF interest and application development grows, there’s an increasing payoff in keeping RDF concerns in mind along with the other best practices as you design document types. Your documents store information, and small tweaks to their structure can allow an RDF proce
XUL Defines New User Interface Options
by Nigel McFarlane – XUL is a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface. Faster and cleaner than HTML, it might just be the quickest way yet to code a UI.
dtddoc step 3: Element and attribute descriptions
In this installment we are going to look at ways to add extra information to the elements and attributes of a DTD. This extra information shall then be used by our new tool dtddoc.
XML 1.1: Here We Go Again
by Kendall Grant Clark – Despite the frequent and usually accurate complaints that XML specifications and standards are insufficiently layered, there is a sort of conceptual stack of technologies which together constitute the architecture of the Web. In this week’s XML-Deviant column I report on dev