Service packs are the means by which Microsoft distributes bug fixes. Service packs keep a product current. Service packs include updates and may include system administration tools, drivers, and additional components, which are conveniently bundled for easy downloading. Service packs are cumulative
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Another Report Sees Oracle Database Share Slipping
By Richard Karpinski – Oracle Corp.’s lead in the relational database market slipped a bit last year, according to new research from IDC. But unlike a recent report from Gartner Dataquest, the IDC numbers showed Oracle maintaining a large lead over IBM and Microsoft in overall market share.
A Realist's SMIL Manifesto
by Fabio Arciniegas A. – The goal of this two-part series is to illustrate best practices and creative uses of SMIL 2.0; in particular the creation of guided-reading documents which push the boundaries of Web narrative technology by combining classic layout and design practices with television-like
Using SQLXML Templates with ASP.Net
By Bryant Likes – XML support was included with Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Since then it has evolved to what is now called SQLXML 3.0. This tutorial uses features from the original release as well as the latest 3.0 release. SQLXML has many features: updategrams, schemas, for xml queries, xml bulk lo
Applied XML Programming for Microsoft® .NET
Author Dino Esposito – Provides comprehensive coverage of the XML features, technologies, and tools for the Microsoft .NET Framework—and gives developers expert guidance to apply these on the job!
Distributing Enterprise Data via XML with SQL Server 2000 and Excel 2002
By Henry Lau – How to take advantage of features in SQL Server 2000 and Excel 2002 in order to distribute enterprise data to Excel 2002 via XML.
Statistics in SQL (Sample Chapter)
Book By Ales Spetic, Jonathan Gennick – The recipes in this chapter show you how to effectively use SQL for common statistical operations. While SQL was never designed to be a statistics package, the language is quite versatile and holds a lot of hidden potential when it comes to calculating the fol
XML from SQL Server
With this download, Josh Sullivan – the winner of our VBeXpress competition – demonstrates how his easy-to-use class makes it a breeze to work with the XML features of SQL Server 2000.
Identify an object’s locks in the database
By Ofer Harel – Here are two simple scripts to identify an object’s locks in the database. Whenever a user complains that there’s a session locked, I use these scripts to find out if there are object locks.
Oracle releases 9i database upgrade
By James Niccolai – ORACLE RELEASED AN upgrade to its Oracle9i database product to developers, adding new XML (Extensible Markup Language) capabilities and other enhancements that it hopes will help it recover ground lost to competitors.