(Micah Dubinko) In this XML-Deviant column, I reflect on the recent XTech conference in Amsterdam, May 25-27, 2005. The conference used to be called ‘XML Europe’, but under the guidance of conference chair Edd Dumbill, this year’s event got a new name as well as two new conference tracks: Open Data,
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While using the Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2 through Microsoft Access to query a host database, you may receive the following error: DIAG [22005] [Microsoft][ODBC DB2 Driver] Invalid character value for cast specification.
WebSphere and .Net Interoperability Using Web Services
(Peter Swithinbank, Francesca Gigante, Hedley Proctor, Mahendra Rathore and William Widjaja) IBM and Microsoft are strong supporters of the Web Services Interoperability Organization’s (WS-I) efforts to make building solutions using software from different suppliers a reality. In this IBM Redboo
Using .NET to make your Application Scriptable – Introduction
(Tim Dawson) You can go a long way to make a large application customisable. You can include a comprehensive options and preferences system or even use configuration files to allow access to advanced settings, but there’s nothing like being able to write code within an application to fully control i
How to make money from Open source
(Con Zymaris) In this easy-to-follow guide, we’re going to examine the commercial opportunities for open source software. We’ll investigate the different ways of generating revenue from open source software and how to reduce development costs by using open source software in your development life cy
SQL Server version control
(Hilary Cotter) Like the weather, SQL developers and database administrators talk about version control, but most of them don’t do anything about it. Version control means managing the versions of the objects created and deployed in their SQL Server environments. Typically, this involves develop
XML in the Database: A Brief Overview
(Lewis R Cunningham) Oracle provides a lot of XML functionality in the database. This entry will cover the different tools Oracle provides and future entries will get into the details of each.
XML and the SQL 2000 Server, Part 4: Introducing SqlXml 3.0
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) The final part of this series discusses accessing XML data using Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE. With the introduction of SQLXML3.0, the capabilities of XML data retrieval are vastly extended. The article discusses this topic using the Visual Studio.NET 2003 IDE and provides hel
Enumerate SQL Server Names from ‘SQL Server Enterprise Manager’
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Occasionally, SQL Server database administrators are requested to provide a list of development SQL Servers, production SQL Servers and so on. Many articles, such as “Monitor Disk Space on Multiple SQL Servers” and “Inventorying hardware and OS information on all SQL Server