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Does XML Schema Earn its Keep?

(Wes Rishel) Keith Boone continues his campaign to make V3 comprehensible with an excellent post on ordering in XML schema and an idea that could overcome one of the fundamental flaws in the “extensible markup language” — the requirement for all parties to switch simultaneously to a new schema versi

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SQL Server: User-Defined Roles

(Denny Cherry) While we’ve been able to create user-defined database roles for decades to ease the process of granting database-level permissions, at the instance level there have always been only nine fixed server roles (eight if you’re using anything older than SQL Server 2000; the bulkadmin role