Order the Evaluation Edition* of SQL Server 2000—and explore how to build the next-generation of scalable Web applications. As a part of the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, SQL Server 2000 offers you scalability for the most demanding environments. SQL Server 2000 dramatically reduces your time t
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Will XML replace HTML?
by John E. Simpson-The relationship between XML and HTML is often confusing for the Web developer coming to XML for the first time.
XSLDebugger v1.2
by Chris Stefano- 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! The XSLDebugger now has syntax coloring!
Create Firewall-Friendly Distributed Apps
by Yasser Shohoud – The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) promises nothing less than to change how you architect, implement, and deploy VB applications—today. At the same time, SOAP—as it stands now—has some significant limitations, not the least of which is performance. Understanding wha
sp__scramblepassword.sql
Michael Hotek tells us…I use this one for two purposes, attempts to crack security and handling stale logins. This procedure will scramble the password for the login you specify to a random 20 character string. I normally fire these off from monitoring procedures. The first one tracks when the
SQL Server 2000 First to Pass W2K Datacenter Certification
Microsoft Corp. is first to cross the application certification finish line for the new Windows 2000 Datacenter Server certification program with its own SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition database software.
Using XML and Relational Databases with Perl
by Kip Hampton-This article explores how Perl can be used to transfer data between XML and relational databases, and how XML can bridge two disparate databases.
How to Find the Best XML Server for You
by Kurt Cagle Is your company drowning in a sea of data? It's ironic that at this stage of the information age, data collection—once one of the costliest operations—has become largely a moot issue. Thirty years ago, the concept of having more than a few thousand records in one database
XSL Tester
XSL Tester is an Open Source project from VBXML. It began its life as an ad hoc tool for quickly viewing the output of style sheet transformations while authoring XSL, because I got sick of switching back and forth between Notepad and IE (then choosing "View source" to see the actual transfo
XML for SQL Server 2000 Web Release 1 Beta 2
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 introduced several features for querying database tables and receiving the results as an XML document. However, as shipped, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 does not allow changes to an XML document as database inserts, updates, and deletes or the loading of large XML files into S