by Walt Jordan – Multek is an international supplier of cell phone boards, backplanes and Internet servers, switches and hubs and other printed circuit board (PCB) technologies. With a global network of companies in The Americas, Europe, and Asia, it offers its customers a broad spectrum of PCB engi
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TAG Rejects HLink
by Kendall Grant Clark – TAG, the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group, announced recently that XLink "should be used for hypertext references in user-interface oriented applications", and that "it is the unanimous opinion of the TAG that XLink should be used for hypertext references in XHTML 2.0." Th
A Quantum Leap in Browser Graphics Capabilities
by Vikas Pandya – You are no longer limited to raster-based images. Finally, you can draw vector images dynamically inside a browser using the new Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology.
HOW TO: Write XML to a File in Visual Studio .NET (2002) Professional Edition
This article shows how to write XML to a file by using the XmlTextWriter class. XmlTextWriter provides a fast, forward-only way of generating XML and helps you to build XML documents. XmlTextWriter provides stream write rather than using an object model, such as the XML Document Object Model (DOM),
Oracle 8i Row Chaining and Migration
By Gaurav Sharan Gupta – In Oracle we sometimes come across poor performance in our databases. Though there may be a number of reasons for performance degradation, we can prevent some issues by properly designing and/or diagnosing the database. Row Migration (RM) and Row Chaining (RC) are two potent
Did you Know? – By Hervé Deschamps
Apps: compiling libraries, debugging export, check env vars. Unix prompt. Forms: format mask, ora_nls. 9iAS services for Forms and Reports.
Cumulative Patch for SQL Server
Four vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could enable an attacker to gain control over an affected server.
SQL: Access to SQL Server
Many SQL Server DBAs and developers who have come up through the ranks started out as Microsoft Access developers. In fact, I was one of them. I starting developing in Access with version 1.0, which now seems like eons ago.If you are a current Access developer who wants to learn how to get t
SQL Server string parser
By Alena Willis – This function can be used to filter sets of data with lists (strings) from any kind of application/Web. I personally use the table that is created to make joins with it on one or more datasets for the purpose of filtering. This function is also useful when modified slightly when yo
Meta Data User-Defined Functions
Alexander Chigrik presents a few UDFs he has developed for getting meta data about your database objects.