Memory – This is the single most important parameter to configure on your system. Memory is used for a variety of things within SQL Server. Upon start up, a portion of this is used management the number of connections (40K), locks (32 bytes), and open objects configured on the server. The remaining
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New XML Spec Makes News — Online publishers support NewsML for tagging multimedia content
By JOHN WEBSTER As online news services compete to grab and hold onto visitors, they are looking to make their sites slicker with tightly integrated multimedia content. Specifically, wire services and news organizations are looking to tie together disparate media types such as text, audio, graphi
Short & sweet XSL Tutorial
XSL (also known as XSLT) is a W3C Recommendation. To generate an HTML document the XMLComponents rely on XSL. To work with the XMLComponents and the XSLComponents we have compiled for you the most important XSL elements :
More Python XML tools
Alexandre Fayolle has announced Python XmlTools, a set of open source XML graphical tools to display and edit XML documents that are released as a side product of the Narval project. This first release of Python XmlTools is composed of two pyGTK widgets: Right now it features two pyGTK widgets
SQL Server 2000 Preview
The upgrade from SQL Server 7.0 to SQL Server 2000 is a relatively small step. The best way to describe SQL Server 2000 is as a point release with large scale feature enhancements. Very few new features have been introduced. SQL Server 2000 takes the existing features of SQL Server 7.0 and exten
BMC Software has acquired the assets of Sylvain Faust Inc.
On October 27, BMC Software, Inc. the leading provider of e-business systems management, and Sylvain Faust Inc., announced the completion of an agreement by which BMC Software has acquired the assets of Sylvain Faust Inc.
Voice-activated Web access A new flavor of XML redefines mobile communication
by Jeff Jurvis. There’s more than one way to connect to the Internet on a mobile phone. WAP and WML are among the more common technologies used in North America. Now a new XML schema is providing another way for users to link up to the Web over their mobile phones.
SQL Server XML Data Access with SQLXML.DLL: the Polymorphic Spreadsheet – Part III
A funny thing happened on the way to publishing this (long overdue) installment in this series: the XSLT spec was ratified by the W3C becoming the law of the (Internet) land. So to make up for the delay, I’ve recast the original XSL stylesheet into an XSLT transform (see link for updated zip downloa
Simple XML Validation with Perl
by Kip Hampton. The Problem: Although XML Schemas and RELAX promise fine-grained validation for XML documents, neither are presently available in the Perl world. You need a way to validate the structure of your documents now. Today. Preferably before lunch. The Solution: Combine the simplicity
Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS
Book overview (DTS) Data Transformation Services helps you create a transactional system to load and transform your data from, and to a wide variety of sources. SQL Server DTS was introduced in the release of SQL Server 7.0, however, SQL Server 2000 sees the functionality and power of this outst