Altova, Inc. (www.xmlspy.com) today announced the release of the XML Spy 4.4 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of developer tools for advanced XML application development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.4 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.4 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.4 Doc
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Insatiable SVG
If you think of SVG as a toy technology to draw nice pictures, wake up! SVG is invading your cell phone and this "graphical XML" might wipe out "text XML" (such as XHTML and XSL-FO), just as graphical user interfaces have wiped out text-based user interfaces.
Report: Hole found in Excel
By Matt Loney – A security hole in Microsoft's Excel XP spreadsheet application could allow hackers to take over a user's PC by using specially formed XML stylesheets.According to security expert Georgi Guninski, the problem occurs when a user opens an Excel spreadsheet file and choo
Using Microsoft Excel 2002 with SQL Server Analysis Services
By Don Kiely – How to use OLAP features in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services from Microsoft Excel 2002.
Oracle9i Real Application Clusters
By Rich Schwerin – Most trade press coverage of Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) has focused on the dramatic improvements in the “abilities”—scalability, manageability, and availability—offered by the new technology. Another benefit that users are finding, however, is the ease of migration t
Windows CE .Net
CE .Net is Windows CE version 4.0, the successor to Windows CE 3.0. Why didn't Microsoft simply name it "CE 4.0"? Because Microsoft marketing wants to make it perfectly clear that everything Microsoft does in 2002 is related in some way to their grand strategy, .Net. How exactly does Win
Close the Loop Between Web Service Development and Deployment
by Jon Gustafson and Mark Sabiers – Close the productivity-killing loops between development, deployment, and management in your Web services development process. This article presents a framework for analyzing data from the runtime environment and quickly injecting changes into the development life
The DocBook Document Type
DocBook is general purpose [XML] and [SGML] document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
Index Tuning Wizard – Part 1 (Automatic Index Selection)
By Guy van den berg – New to SQL Server 7.0 the Index Tuning Wizard is one of the many novel self-administrative features included in this release. Within this series of articles I’ll take a look at the wizard, how best to use it and how to interpret its’ output.
Microsoft Plans SQL Server Security Guide
By Brian Moran – Microsoft is preparing a new best-practices guide that specifically addresses managing security vulnerabilities in a SQL Server environment.