by Leigh Dodds – This week the XML-Deviant looks at some recent community criticism over the XML support in Internet Explorer, which has been resolved with some promising feedback from Microsoft.
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Let's talk about X, baby – XML assessment
By Nick Langley – XML is promoted as the universal language for e-commerce, enabling business partners' IT systems to talk to one another by exchanging documents, which can be acted upon at the process level, rather than the data level. Currently, however, business partners need to work together
Cursor Performance
From SQLTeam – A recent article on 4GuysFromRolla.com had an ASP script to generate the Transact-SQL code for a cursor. I’ve always thought that cursors where slower than set-based SQL but I never knew how much slower. Read on for the results and a couple of suprises thrown in.
Using AWE Memory in SQL Server 2000
by Brad M. McGehee – In most SQL Servers, the biggest performance bottleneck is I/O. This makes a lot of sense for two major reasons. First, the purpose of a database is to store data, and data is stored on disk arrays, requiring I/O to retrieve the data from the disk array before it can be put into
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Scalability Project
SQL Server 2000 running on Microsoft Windows® 2000 servers handles the largest mission-critical applications. This white paper is a joint effort by Microsoft and Dell to demonstrate the scalability of SQL Server 2000 and Dell hardware. SQL Server 2000 running on a Dell enterprise eight-way server ca
Modeling XML Vocabularies with UML: Part II
by Dave Carlson – In Part I of this series, I emphasized that models are an inevitable part of system analysis and design, even if a model is sometimes only in the developer's mind. By using UML to capture a conceptual model of the planned vocabulary, we are able to clarify the essential terms a
Introduction to XSLT
By Jason Monberg and Mike Wynholds – XSL, or Extensible Stylesheet Language, consists of three languages for converting XML documents into other formats. XSL Formatting Objects (XML FO) describes visual formatting, while XPath accesses specific parts of an XML document. But XSL Transformations (XSLT
Final Release of the new XML Spy 4.0 Suite is now available
It is currently available for free evaluation download or purchase at www.xmlspy.com. The XML Spy 4.0 Suite is now a complete family of products for Advanced XML Application Development. The Suite consists of two completely new products; the XML Spy 4.0 XSLT Designer and the XML Spy 4.0 Do
Important Notice: PASS 2001 NA Postponed
The organizers of PASS 2001 North America are deeply saddened by the despicable acts of terrorism that took place on September 11, 2001. In light of this extraordinary situation along with the emotional, personal safety and logistical ramifications that are associated with it, PASS feels it is appro
SQL Server/Unisys Configuration Tops TPC-C Nonclustered Benchmark
By Kathy Blomstrom – This week, Microsoft and Unisys announced that SQL Server 2000 running on a Unisys ES7000 server set a new world record for the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s (TPC’s) nonclustered, single-server (scale-up) TPC-C benchmark. The test system achieved 141,138.44 transa