This article written by Rob Taylor talks about Transact SQL, also called T-SQL, is Microsoft's extension to the ANSI SQL language. It is the driving force of Microsoft's SQL Server and is a dynamic database programming language. There have been several extensions added to the ANSI SQL langua
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The Rise of Web Services: Completing the Picture
We've made it – the whole concept of Web Service is taking off. Certain companies have already taken the plunge and have joined support and development groups in an effort to standardize Web Service Description Languages, while others are concentrating on hosting and referencing primary services
Use this XML syntax checker to see if an XML file is well formed.
Type in a URL below, and we'll fetch whatever it points at and check to see whether it's well-formed XML. In case you don't have any XML lying around, we've provided a couple of test files:
Namespace Tutorial
This reference has been developed for Zvon, where you can find other not only XML related materials (both basic and advanced tutorials about XSLT, XML, DTD, Mozilla, CSS, regular expressions, …) This tutorial including xslt and python sources can be downloaded.
Price Comparisons
Compare pricing for Oracle and IBM with SQL Server pricing quickly and easily. Download our Oracle Price Comparison calculator or our IBM Price Comparison calculator and see how much you’ll save with SQL Server.
Intro to User Defined Functions
This article by Garth Wells is on User Defined Functions and it's taken mainly from his book, Code-Centric: T-SQL Programming with Stored Procedures and Triggers, about programming Microsoft SQL Server. The ability to create a user-defined function (UDF) is a new feature added to SQL
The XPath Visualizer Version 1.3
This is a full blown Visual XPath Interpreter for the evaluation of any XPath expression and visual presentation of the resulting nodeset or scalar value.
DTD Tutorial
DTD is described in XML 1.0 standard. In this tutorial basic DTD features are demonstrated on many examples.
Introducing Microsoft DotNet
At the Professional Developers' Conference in Orlando last July, Microsoft unveiled its latest architecture, .NET. Its various features and components were explained to the large audience by a number of speakers. So what is .NET?The term is, essentially, a new marketing label which Microsof
SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows® CE Edition (SQL Server CE) is the compact database for rapidly developing applications that extend enterprise data management capabilities to devices. SQL Server CE has the familiar feel of SQL Server, with tools, application programming interfaces (APIs), and SQL