by Alan Kotok – The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) project released three more technical specifications for review on 28 March, including a new draft document on messaging services. This part of ebXML — formerly known as transport, routing, and packaging — had made more early progress than the ot
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Deploying merge replication
Deploying merge replication is generally a simple process. You simply subscribe to a merge publication, allow the snapshot to transfer the schema and data, and you are up and running. What happens though when you have disconnected users, remote subscribers over slow links, unstable connections, or
Performance Tuning Tips for Using Microsoft Access and SQL Server Together
If you are really interested in the fastest performance, don't use Access as a front-end to a SQL Server database. While Access is relatively easy to learn and fast to develop in, its performance if poor when compared to other front-end options. But if you like to develop in Access, or don't
Microsoft Releases SOAP Toolkit 2.0 RC0
Microsoft has announced the Release Candidate edition of the Microsoft Soap Toolkit Version 2 (Soap Toolkit 2.0 RC0). The RC0 Toolkit "offers functionality similar to the MSDN Soap Toolkit sample which has been available for several months, but it will be a fully Microsoft-supported product. The
New XSLT Standard Library (XSLTSL) requests participation
Steve Ball has announced the XSLT Standard Library, a SourceForge hosted open source project to develop a "collection of commonly-used templates written purely in XSLT".<br> <br> The initial release (0.1) available on the project site comes with two libraries with templates to process stri
Namespaces and XSLT Stylesheets
by Bob DuCharme – In XML a namespace is a collection of names used for elements and attributes. A URI (usually, a URL) is used to identify a particular collection of names. Instead of including the URI with every element to show which namespace it came from, it's more convenient to name a short
Optimizing Cube Performance Using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a series of test scenarios that include building and querying cubes using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Analysis Services.
Performance Tuning ASP Pages Using SQL Server
While ADO makes database manipulation easy for the ASP page developer, using ADO methods to access SQL Server data can often kill SQL Server performance. As a rule of thumb, encapsulate your DML (Data Manipulation Language) in stored procedures instead of using ADO methods. This bypasses object libr
XSLT Standard Library Version 0.1 Released
Steve Ball (Zveno) has posted an announcement for the first release of an 'XSLT Standard Library' of commonly-used XSLT templates created through the corresponding SourceForge project. This initial release of the XSLT Standard Library is "to promote the library, establish the engineering
XForms Requirements
Forms were introduced into HTML in 1993. Since then they have gone on to become a critical part of the Web. The existing mechanisms in HTML for forms are now outdated, and W3C has started work on developing an effective replacement. This document outlines the requirements for "XForms", W3C&#