by A. Russell Jones – Ever since Microsoft released Active Server Pages (ASP), people have been using it to display database data in HTML-formatted tables—and arguing about the most efficient method. Now that XSLT has joined the race, I wanted to know whether using XSLT could have any effect on effi
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Sun Multi-Schema XML Validator
The Sun Multi-Schema XML Validator (MSV) is a Java[tm] technology tool to validate XML documents against several kinds of XML schemata. It supports RELAX NG, RELAX Namespace, RELAX Core, TREX, XML DTDs, and a subset of XML Schema Part 1. This download package includes binaries, sample source code, a
How to write secure SQL Server–based applications
Chip Andrews – Designing secure applications is more about good planning than anything else. So before you begin that new project, think it over carefully. With application-level intrusions becoming increasingly common, you need to keep attackers from exploiting your code and circumventing your expe
Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000
Author Kalen Delaney – Master the inner workings of today’s premier relational database management system with this official guide to the SQL Server™ 2000 engine. Written by a renowned columnist in partnership with the product development team, this is the must-read book for anyone who needs to unde
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as a "Dimensionally Friendly System"
By Joy Mundy – This paper maps features and functionality of the Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Data Warehousing Framework to the twenty characteristics of a "dimensionally friendly system" identified by Ralph Kimball.
Programming Web Services with XML-RPC
This is an excerpt from the book Programming Web Services with XML-RPC, published by O'Reilly and Associates, a book that covers Web services development with Extensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Calls (XML-RPC).
Creating an e-mail Web Service using Visual Studio.NET
By Casey Chesnut – A Web Service is a web application component that exposes its interface over the Internet. It is accessible through the standard web protocol HTTP GET/POST as well as the rapidly evolving standard SOAP (a combination of HTTP and XML). This lets other distributed applications acces
Open source Java topic map engine
TM4J is a free topic map engine providing interfaces for the creation, manipulation, import and export of XML topic maps. Check out the features.
Analyze Disk Utilization
By Russ Whitney – Most users who know about analysis applications recognize the power and value of analysis but don't realize the breadth of situations to which analysis applications are applicable. Probably 80 percent of OLAP product demonstrations use sales data. The sample database that SQL S
Building and Managing Highly Available SQL Server Applications
By Scott Mauvais – Building highly available applications requires three ingredients: technology, people, and process. Let's review what I mean by these terms.