(Armirthalingam Prasanna) The Microsoft .NET 2.0 platform introduces a new namespace called System.Transactions that brings in a lightweight, simplified transaction model. This article discusses the shortcomings of current transaction models and introduces System.Transactions for .NET Framework 2.0
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A First Look at Express Manager
(Rick Dobson) Many believe that the absence of graphical client management tools for MSDE hampered its widespread adoption, but with the December 2004 and subsequent Community Technology Preview (CTP) releases of Express Manager (XM), Microsoft offers a solution that works not only with MSDE and oth
Implementing a WS-Secure Conversation in Microsoft IssueVision
(Weidong Shen) Microsoft IssueVision is a developer sample application that demonstrates the best practices for building Smart Client applications. It was developed specifically for the DevDays 2004 Smart Client track, and it provides a sample help desk management application. The original source co
You receive an error message when you try to run a stored procedure that has the same name as another stored procedure, but that has a different owner, in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, when you try to run a stored procedure by using the Data view in Report Designer, you receive an error message that is similar to the following: An error occurred while executing the query. Procedure or function yourStoredProcedure has too many ar
FIX: You may intermittently receive ‘SQLSTATE: 23502, SQLCODE: -407’ error messages when you use the Managed Provider for DB2 to perform parameterized queries in Host Integration Server 2004
In Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004, when you use the Managed Provider for DB2 to perform parameterized queries against an IBM DB2 database, you may intermittently receive error messages that are similar to the following: Source: Microsoft.HostIntegration.MsDb2Client Message: Null value
Introduction to XML for Database Developers
(Dejan Sunderic) Relational database management systems have been around since the days before the Internet, and Microsoft SQL Server is no exception. In its latest version, it is compatible with XML, which allows it to solve the old challenges faced by RDBM systems (and some new ones) in new ways.
XML Standard Released for Voter Information
Hart InterCivic released a new public XML standard for exchange of critical information required to effectively manage elections, including cast vote data, election management data and ballot definition data.
Oracle to set SOA techs free at JavaOne
(David Berlind) For several years now, Oracle, with its own Java-based J2EE application server and integrated development environment (JDeveloper), has been trying to play in the same league as Java application server heavyweights IBM and BEA. But despite having traditionally positioned itself as
An introduction to JDO 2.0 using JPOX and DB2 Universal Database
(Robert Peterson and Kulvir Bhogal) The Java Data Objects (JDO) specification introduced by the Java Community Process (JCP) is a framework which persists plain Java objects to a data store such as an RDBMS. Java Persistent Objects (JPOX) is a JDO 1.0 (JSR 012) and JDO 2.0 (JSR 243) compliant implem
Oracle 10g PL/SQL Enhancements, Part 2: Utility Players
(Jim Czuprynski) The previous article in this series looked at some of the new PL/SQL packages that Oracle 10g now provides for encrypting and decrypting data, monitoring sessions, and triggering alerts when thresholds have been breached. Rounding out these new and improved features are several pack