Today's conventional wisdom holds that XML is the key to helping businesses work together, at least from the standpoint of merging information from disparate systems. But by itself, XML can't do anything to help. Someone has to define the extensions to the XML schema, the structure that the
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PASS and SQL Connections Partner on SQL Event!
Coming off record breaking attendance at the last user event in San Francisco, PASS 2001 North America is gearing up for the premier SQL Server user conference. This is a great opportunity for you to increase your knowledge base and stay in touch with the issues and solutions affecting your technolo
SQL Server System Table Map
The printed SQL Server 2000 system table map has been a very popular tool for database administrators, programmers, and other professionals working with SQL Server 2000. The online system table map incorporates the benefits of the visual representation of table relationships from the printed version
Preview: O'Reilly XTech 2001 Conference on XML
by Edd Dumbill – O'Reilly will run its first ever XML conference this year, XTech 2001, as part of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. XTech 2001 will maintain the technical excellence established by its debut last year under the aegis of the GCA (in association with which this year's c
New tools from Quick
Bill LaForge announced version 4.1 of JXQuick, a tool for mapping XML to Java objects and back, and version 3.0 of JXUnit, a unit testing tool which uses XML to define unit tests of Java code.
XML data binding with data types
By Chris Curry – If you are a developer who is hooked on XML (like me), at one time or another you’ve probably wanted to offer a means for your application users to edit your XML documents directly. If you’ve done this via a web-based interface then you’ve probably come across Microsoft’s XML DSO, o
Fundamentals of DTS in SQL Server 2000
Microsoft has added an enormous amount of features to DTS – Data Transformation Services – in its new release of SQL Server. In this session, you will learn about the new tasks in SQL Server 2000 and how they can help transform data.
SQL Server CE Trial Software
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows® CE Edition (SQL Server CE) is the compact database for rapidly developing applications that extend enterprise data management to mobile and embedded devices. Developers, database administrators, and IT Professionals can now download the 120-day trial sof
Microsoft helps take XML Web services to the next level
Microsoft is taking XML Web services to the next level and publishing three additional specifications on http://www.gotdotnet.com. The three specifications are the SOAP Routing Protocol (SOAP-RP), XLANG, and the Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) protocol. Each of these three specification
Rapid Resolution
by Leigh Dodds – SAX users will be interested in a little exchange (actually a disagreement) that took place on XML-DEV this week about how SAX might best be altered to support entity catalogs. Regular readers will remember that the issue of using catalogs — a means to map SYSTEM and PUBLIC identif