Yukon is the version of SQL Server that will bring .NET, the Common Language Runtime environment and XML much deeper into the plumbing of the database engine and build in considerable scale-up engineering. SQL Server 2000 had some native capability for importing XML documents and doing qu
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Splitting and Manipulating Strings
by Bob DuCharme – XSLT is a language for manipulating XML documents, and XML documents are text. When you're manipulating text, functions for searching strings and pulling out substrings are indispensable for rearranging documents to create new documents. The XPath string functions incorporated
RSA Frees SAML-related Patents
By Thor Olavsrud – RSA Security (NASDAQ:RSAS), in an effort to clear the way for the widespread adoption of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specification, announced Monday that it will grant non-exclusive royalty-free license use of two of its patents to companies deploying application
Tip: Call JavaScript from an XSLT style sheet
By Nicholas Chase – XSLT style sheets allow you a great deal of freedom in manipulating the data in your original XML document. There are times, however, when you really want to do actual programming, and the XSLT recommendation is designed to allow that through the use of extensions. These extensio
Auditing LOGOFF and LOGON
(Milind Deobhankar) Auditing the database to find out who is logged on, who has logged off, from which machines users are logged in, and from which program users are connected can be a very cumbersome task. Here is a procedure that will help the DBA to trace who has logged on, logged off, and at wh
Losing the E
By David Baum – Leveraging the internet to improve business communications and processes is still referred to as “e-business,” but these Oracle customers say e-business will soon become the standard for all business.
Take Advantage of SQLXML with ASP.NET
Randy Holloway explains how to use SQLXML 3.0 with SQL Server to expose Web services through your ASP.NET applications by executing T-SQL stored procedures and user-defined functions.
Moving from Access to SQL Server
By Jorge Cano – These kinds of tasks are a little more complex because we have to take care of the objects that we’ll move (or migrate) from Access to SQL Server. SQL Server has some tools and wizards that can help you, like the Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer and others. SQL Server does not mana
SQL Server CE 2.0 Might Foster the Killer App
By Brian Moran – Microsoft’s new .NET Compact Framework and SQL Server CE 2.0 might encourage the development of killer apps for mobile devices that even SQL Server administrators couldn’t live without.
Libxslt 1.0.17
Code cleanup, XSLT debugger support, EXSLT date improvements, Windows Makefile improvements.