(Brian Vaughn) Businesses that hope to sell items through their website need a searchable inventory system for the web. This article, the first in a four-part series, will start you on your way to building one.
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Read an XML file from SQL Server
(Arthur Fuller) SQL Server 2000 makes it simple to export your data as XML; but importing XML and working with XML files are a little trickier.
FIX: The results are different every time that you run a complex query that contains a hash outer join operator in SQL Server 2000
When you run a complex query that contains a hash outer join operator in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the results that the query returns are different every time that you run the query.
IDM: Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Identity Management Control
Get the information you need to achieve Sarbox compliance by selecting the right systems-based identity management solution. Download “Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Identity Management Control,” a September 2005 white paper from BMC. Read it now. (R, pdf)
Tip: How not to design an XML format
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) This tip investigates an XML format that demonstrates a number of common mistakes and design flaws, and explains how you can correct these issues and improve the format.
Producing Professional MSDN-style Documentation with .NET and NDoc
(Alessandro Lacava) The .NET framework provides a nice way to insert XML documentation tags inside C# source code. These tags can then be extracted to an XML file, and using NDoc, transformed into fully-functional MSDN-style documentation.
Functionality from the DB2 UDB SQL Reference for Cross-Platform Development not supported by Derby
(Mark Chiang and Daniel Debrunner) Some of the functionality described in the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) SQL Reference for Cross-Platform Development Version 1.1 is not supported by Derby. This article lists these differences. This comparison was developed by reviewing the DB2 UDB SQL Refe
Sharpening Your Skills to Manage the Oracle 10g Infrastructure
(Steve Lemme) Oracle has released its latest version of its database – Oracle 10g with even greater database functionality then before. Since Oracle v6, significant technological improvements have been made in processing power, storage, network, and application architectures. With each new database
Shopping Cart simulator – Web Application using ASP.NET/VB.NET & Oracle 9i
(Iyer Sankara S H) This article explains how to create an Editable Datagrid in ASP.NET scripted in VB.NET which simulates a Shopping Cart that we normally come across in Amazon.com or shopping sites of MSN,Yahoo or Rediff !
nls_lang when using multiple Oracle homes
(fstrahberger) Did you ever use oracle with more than one Oracle home? Maybe in different language settings like AMERICAN and GERMAN. Then you probably had the following problem in native oracle (e.g. sqlplus) when selecting a date field: “ORA-01843: not a valid month”. This problem is even worse wh