(Uche Ogbuji) Get started working with Extensible Hypertext Markup Language. XHTML is a language based on HTML, but expressed in well-formed XML. But XHTML is much more than just regularizing tags and characters — XHTML can alter the way you approach Web design. This tutorial gives step-by-step ins
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An interview with Itzik Ben-Gan
(Douglas Reilly) Itzik Ben-Gan is a writer and mentor in the development community. He writes a monthly column for SQL Server Magazine and co-authored Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 . He is one of the founders of Solid Quality Learning, a global provider of education and solutions for the
Building Web Applications with Eclipse, WTP, and Derby
(Susan L. Cline) Building dynamic Web applications is easy using Eclipse, the Web Tools Platform (WTP) for Eclipse, Derby, and Jakarta-Tomcat. Learn how to install and configure all of the required Open Source components, and build a complete web application using JSPs and servlets to store and retr
Automate SQL Server restores to refresh test environments
(Greg Robidoux) You most likely refresh a development or test environment frequently with a recent production environment backup. Depending on what you are testing or developing, current data may be critical to ensuring your results are valid. Creating an automated task to restore the database regul
FIX: A stack overflow exception may occur, and SQL Server 2000 may unexpectedly close when you submit a query that uses the UNION ALL operator more than 255 times
Consider the following scenario. You create a query that uses the UNION ALL operator more than 255 times. You submit this query from a client application to Microsoft SQL Server 2000. In this scenario, a stack overflow exception may occur, and SQL Server unexpectedly closes. When this problem occurs
On Turning Two
(Jeff Spicer) Two years ago, Oracle announced Oracle Database 10g, the first database to be “grid-enabled”—meaning the database could run across a clustered group of servers that could be managed as a single entity. By implementing computing grids with Oracle Database 10g, companies would gain impro
Working Well with Others
(Michael Dougherty) Sharing is hard. Even when employees and partners are willing to share, business and technology impediments get in the way. Simply finding shared corporate resources can be a challenge. Sharing documents brings a host of challenges including ownership, access rights, version cont
MySQL Gotchas
It’s not a bug – it’s a gotcha. A “gotcha” is a feature or function which works as advertised – but not as expected. When working with the MySQL database server I have repeatedly encountered situations where the results of various actions have been unexpected and/or contrary to the behaviour gen
Graph Data Representation in Oracle Database 10g: Case Studies in Life Sciences
(Susie M. Stephens, Johan Rung and Xavier Lopez) New technologies have been developed in the life sciences that allow researchers to study biological systems in rich detail. These advances have resulted in an abundance of data that describes the relations between the fundamental components of biol
DataMirror Updates XML Transformation Software
(Alex Woodie) Five years ago, XML was seen as a cure-all for the escalation of disparate document formats and the new common language for conducting business online. While XML has become a key standard, it hasn’t replaced other types of documents, such as EDI and flat files, which are still in wides