How can I program a case-sensitive comparison of a user-typed password on a case-insensitive SQL Server 7.0 instance?
Author: SSWUG Research
Corel Buys XML Developer SoftQuad
In a bid to get ahead on XML (Extensible Markup Language) technology, Corel Corp. said that it has agreed to acquire Toronto-based XML-developer SoftQuad Software Ltd. in an all-stock transaction valued at $37 million.
Getting Loopy
by Bob DuCharme – Programming languages use loops to execute an action or series of actions multiple times. After performing the last action of such a series, the program "loops" back up to the first one. It may repeat these actions a specific number of times—for example, five times or thirt
Converting DTDs to XML Schemas
In the last installment of this column I described a neat tool, dtd2xsd, to convert Document Type Definitions to XML Schema. Let's put dtd2xsd to work with the RSS 0.91 DTD as an example.
SQL Server 7.0 Undocumented Stored Procedures
by Alexander Chigrik – In this article, I want to tell you about some useful undocumented stored procedures shipped with SQL Server 7.0.
Stored Procedures
The use of stored procedures is the one area where the Command object comes into its own. A stored procedure (or stored query as it’s sometimes called) is a predefined SQL query stored on the database. So why should we create and use a stored procedure instead of just creating a SQL string on the fl
Building the Billion Dollar Database: Microsoft SQL Server Climbs to New Heights
How about this: News that your product has reached $1 billion in annual sales? Now that's a milestone worth celebrating. Ask Steve Murchie he's Microsoft's group product manager for SQL Server Marketing, and Microsoft SQL Server has joined the ranks of products that rake in more than $1
Picture This: Web Interfaces Go Interactive
by Kurt Cagle – Static bitmaps and primitive animation have limited the development of truly interactive Web graphics. Now there's SVG, a standalone language that lets you use XSLT to generate dynamic graphical user interfaces from XML data sources.
RDF Applications with Prolog
RDF Applications with Prolog by Bijan Parsia – In the first article in this series, I explained some of the semantics of RDF via Prolog (and vice versa). In this article, I'll explore some of the nitty-gritty of working with RDF in Prolog using the SWI-Prolog system.
Xparse-J Update 1.1
Xparse-J grew out of the need for the smallest possible XML parser. While the parser works great when parsing, accessing the parsed data afterwards was not easy. This has been improved.