Even if you fine-tune your database, your ADO code, your network, and so on, you will find that there is another way that beats them all when it comes to performance: caching. Caching is an old technique for increasing performance by storing frequently-used data on the server, therefore reducing cos
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Another Recruiter Asks a SQL Question
From SQL Team…We dealt with a recruiter question once before and had fun with it. This is the first recruiter question since then so I thought I'd give it a shot. I'll tell you how I came up with a solution built entirely on articles published on SQLTeam!
ADO.NET's Primary Objects
By Michael Otey The Microsoft .NET Framework promises to dramatically change the way you and I develop applications—including how we provide data access. ADO.NET, the next generation of ADO, will be the primary data access API for Microsoft .NET applications. If you already know ADO, you'll
Telera Announces VoiceXML 1.0 Compliance
Telera, the Voice Web Infrastructure Company(SM), announced its conformance to Version 1.0 of the VoiceXML specification — an open programming language that makes Web content and Web-based applications accessible via any telephone through the use of voice commands or traditional touchtone input. Ba
Toward an XPath API
by Leigh Dodds Since XSLT and XPointer rely on XPath, developers are asking whether an XPath API should be created.
LeapfrogXML, Inc., Announces the Industry's First Smart Web Services Company
LeapfrogXML(TM), Inc., announced the launch of its company, which has developed the first smart Web services for IT consulting companies, ASP's, Telco's and other customers. The company's mission is to be the leading provider of eBusiness Web services software that give enterprises the a
Answers from Microsoft
In this article from SQL Server Magazine, Richard Waymire, lead program manager for SQL Server development at Microsoft, will answer several questions.
Handling Custom Errors in a Client Application
In this article, Garth discusses how to use access custom error messages generated by SQL Server with the Errors Collection of ADO. This is a follow up to the earlier Handling Errors in Stored Procedures article.
MSXML 3.0 Illustrated
XML is becoming more and more popular, so are it's surrounding technologies like XSLT, SOAP, etc. Microsoft is doing good job keeping up with the standards and it was proved when MSXML 3.0 was released in November last year. MSXML 3.0 Web release is a perfect DOM based XML parser, with SAX 2.0 s
VoiceXML tutorials
Adding VoiceXML to your Web site can be an effective way to make your content accessible to many more customers. This is Part I of a comprehensive tutorial on the VoiceXML specification, so get ready to have some fun and be sure to come back for Part II where we will develop a complete dynamic Voice