By Simon St.Laurent In a recent press release noting its achievement of 500 members, the W3C described itself as "unique in that it performs the functions of design and standardization concurrently." Distinctions between W3C Recommendations and ISO Standards are common fodder for discuss
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XML for C# Programmers
By Darshan Singh If you are writing XML applications using Visual Studio 6.0, then using MSXML 3.0 is a great option to work with XML documents. But if you are writing code for the .NET platform, the language of choice is C# (pronounced C Sharp) and XML classes provided by the .NET Framework are
XML Query Engine
The XQEngine utility lets you perform full-text-searches across multiple files using the XML Query Language (XQL) and Java. A while ago, I was looking for an XML search utility. My application had to search a relatively large number of XML files (they were small files) on a periodic basis. The prim
Getting The Best From The SQL Server Index Tuning Wizard
by Neil Boyle The Index Tuning Wizard is a handy tool shipped as part of the SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 Profiler that can analyze a set of SQL queries and suggest index changes that could improve their performance. Here, I will take a look at how to get the best results out of using the
Log Shipping with SQL Server 7.0
A low-cost way to high availability Log shipping is a robust yet low-tech, low-cost way to achieve high availability and disaster protection in your SQL Server environment. Log shipping automatically ships—copies and restores—a production server's transaction logs to a standby server, which stan
Scientific American features the Semantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee, Ora Lassila and Jim Hendler have published a feature on the Semantic Web in May's edition of Scientific American. Once you've struggled through the obligatory computers-will-run-your-life rhetoric, the article is a good overview of the W3C's Semantic Web visio
XSLT 1.1 Cancelled, Working Group moving directly to 2.0
Attendees to the first XSLT-UK conference last weekend were surprised to discover that the XSL Working Group have decided to cancel plans to develop XSLT 1.1. The 1.1 functionality will be added to the 2.0 specification instead.
XSLDebugger v2: Start
Version 2.0 of the XSLDebugger has been released! Have you ever wished to debug an XSL transformation with the features of a debugger like those in Microsoft's Visual Basic IDE? The XSLDebugger is the answer to your debugging needs!
Analyze Your SQL Server Databases Using Coefficient
by Brad M. McGehee – Just as you can’t ever be “too thin or too rich,” there is also no such thing as a database that is "too fast". In fact, if you have been a DBA for long, the biggest grip you probably hear from most users is that the database is too slow. I doubt if any DBA […]
SQL Server Lock Contention Tamed: The Joys Of NOLOCK and ROWLOCK
by Michael Balloni – Relational databases, like Microsoft's SQL Server, use locks to prevent multiple users from making conflicting modifications to a set of data. When a set of data is locked by a user, no other users can modify that same set of data until the first user finishes modifying the