By Paul Hammond – I recently spent some time discussing integration issues with a client who wanted to use XML to store articles for a magazine style website. His XML data was stored in physical XML files on the web server, with all of the articles for a "magazine edition" in a single XML fi
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Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server Investigate how to install multiple instances of SQL Server, use the TOP statement with a local variable, use UDFs in SQL Server 2000, store extended properties, and more.
Upgrade Your E-Performance
By Jeffrey Bane – When it comes to database optimization for e-commerce, maximum performance for the Web user takes precedence over all else. Probably in no other type of dynamic application does SELECT statement performance take such priority over inserts and updates. (I say dynamic because an OLAP
First complete draft of XForms published
The W3C's XForms Working Group has published their first complete working draft for the next generation of XML-based web forms.
Read free chapter from book: XML in a Nutshell : Chapter 9 XPath
XPath is a non-XML language used to identify particular parts of XML documents. XPath lets you write expressions that refer to the document's first person element, the seventh child element of the third person element, the ID attribute of the first person element whose contents are the string &#
Free XML Training: Introduction to XML: 6 Weeks free online course from Barnes & Noble University
XML is the newest and hippest Web technology. Bookstore shelves are stuffed with XML books and every other magazine article is about some facet or another of XML. So what’s all the fuss about, anyway? This course is designed to answer that very question. I’ll explain what XML is, introduce you to it
Microsoft, Sun in New Clash
Despite Zachman's rosy comments, the sailing has not been smooth for Microsoft with BizTalk Server and the underlying BizTalk Framework technology.
The Route to Scalability
By Michael Otey – Despite the impressive Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) scores that Microsoft generated by using scale-out technology and SQL Server's federated-databases feature, it's too soon to count out scale-up technology based on SMP systems. Adding more processing po
Getting Topical
by Simon St. Lauren – The rapid rise to prominence of Topic Maps was one of the notable features of 2000. Discussed in only a few sessions at XML'99 as an SGML-based standard (ISO 13250:2000), Topic Maps were all over the conference at XML 2000. Members of the XML Topic Maps (XTM) authoring grou
Microsoft, Sun in new clash
On yet another front, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are going to war. This time the battle is over shaping standards for Extensible Markup Language space. The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, which has evolved as the standard way to share data over the Internet, is a Worldwide Web Consortiu