by Timothy M. Chester – Increase the flexibility and security of your Web apps by leveraging ASP.NET’s built-in FormsAuthenticationModule.In this article, I’ll show you how to use the System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication class in the .NET Framework to build an XML-based authentication sys
Author: SSWUG Research
Webs At Rest and In Motion
by Kendall Grant Clark – Careful readers of XML.com have figured out by now that, editorially at least, we are interested in coming to terms with the REST (that is, “representational state transfer”) approach to building applications, particularly Web applications.
Microsoft seeks 64-bit SQL Server beta candidates
By Paul Krill – MICROSOFT IS SEEKING candidates to test Beta 2 of its 64-bit SQL Server 2000 Enterprise database which is being optimized for Intel Itanium 2 hardware platform launched on Monday.
Expose SQL Server Stored Procedures With SQLXML 3.0
by Jay Schmelzer – The SQLXML Web releases provide several new features for interacting with a SQL Server 2000 database using XML technologies. SQLXML 3.0 continues to build on these features, adding the ability to expose SQL Server 2000 data using XML-based Web services. SQLXML 3.0 makes exposing S
Cracking MS SQL Server passwords
By Thomas C Greene – The inner workings of the undocumented pwdencrypt() hash function in Microsoft SQL Server have been revealed in a paper by security researcher David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software (NGSS).
Introduction to XQuery (Part 3 of 4)
by Srinivas Pandrangi, Alex Cheng, et al. – In the first two parts of this series, you saw a general introduction to XQuery syntax, capabilities, and the XQuery data model. In this part, you’ll learn how to use XQuery’s powerful FLWR (for, let, where, return) expressions and see the similarities bet
VoiceXML Planet Fall 2002 Conference & Expo
Building on the enormous success of the first West Coast event held in March 2002, VoiceXML Planet Fall 2002 Conference & Expo is the premier VoiceXML event for business and technology leaders who are looking for strategic, technical and market opportunities in the emerging interactive voice applica
Version 3.0 of X-Hive XML database available
The latest version of native XML database X-Hive adds support for XQuery and DOM Level 3 Load and Save.
SQLTools 1.3.5.12 Beta Released
SQLTools is a light-weight, robust tool for ORACLE database development that includes a text editor, SQL console and a couple of SQL utilities. Small enough to fit on a floppy disk and able to be used on a dial-up connection, SQLTools is a handy, portable, free program that works as fast as SQLPlus.
Finding all possible paths in a MS Project activity network using PL/SQL
by Eli Leiba – Microsoft Project 98 saves a network of defined activities, called a project, in an MPP file. You can save the whole project into an Oracle database and all 38 tables supporting the project definition will be created. Task_Dependencies is the table that represents all possible activit