(David Jenkins) The W3C laid out the XHTML path by releasing the XHTML 1.0 (Extensible HTML) specs on January 26, 2000 with full support of all of HTML 4.0 features as well as compatibility with XML for future development. You may think of XHTML as the transition from XML (how the data is to be defi
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(Paul Zikopoulos) In my last article, I showed you how to get DB2 data into your Microsoft Excel 2007 (Excel 2007) worksheets. In addition, I showed you some nice formatting capabilities in Excel 2007 and how to apply them to your DB2 data. In this article, I want to show you some additional advance
Turn SQL into XML with PHP
(Vikram Vaswani) Ever wished for an easy way to transform SQL result sets into XML? It’s a PEAR package named XML_Query2XML, and it provides a comprehensive framework to efficiently turn the results of a database query into a customizable XML document. This article introduces the package, and demons
DB2 Hardware Exploitation of Decimal Arithmetic
(Chris Eaton) IBM’s new POWER6 based servers have a new and unique hardware capability. They have added a Decimal Floating-Point Unit (DFU) which can perform numeric manipulation in hardware for decimal data.
VB 2005: How To Hide / Show Multiple TabPages in a TabControl
(Ged Mead) In the previous parts we looked at ways of hiding and showing a single Tab Page in a TabControl. In some situations you may need to hide and show multiple pages.
The Aerial View of Exceptions
In this article we’ll talk about exceptions. As implied by the name, exceptions are unexpected events that make a program unable to perform its duties in a logical manner. Exception handling empowers you to handle these little surprises rationally.
.NET Appications Automation
(Yuriy Kyyan) By integration of application it’s often possible to archive more functionality with less cost than implementing all of it in single application. There are a lot of existing applications, which are created for COM platform. They are still in heavy use, but current tendency on Microsoft
SQL Server Connection Level Parameters
(Peter DeBetta) Have you ever needed to pass in a value that would be used throughout the lifetime of a connection – perhaps a connection session level value that would be used by multiple procedures, views, functions, etc…?
Error message when you use SQL Server Management Studio to connect to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services from a client computer
Consider the following scenario. A server is running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS). From a client computer, you use SQL Server Management Studio to connect to Integration Services on the server. To connect to Integration Services on the server, you use a user account that is
Powershell and SQL Server – Reading a Control File
(Buck Woody) We’re continuing our series on scripting with PowerShell. We’re getting closer to the “work” part of the script, where I’ll explain the SQL Server commands you can use to manage your server. You’ll recall from the requirements I laid out earlier in the series that our ultimate goal is t