(Allen G. Traylor) Many database management system (DBMS) tools run on a variety of hardware platforms. The differences among the tools can be many, but all serious products have one thing in common: They support data access and manipulation in SQL, the industry-standard language specifically design
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SQL Server 2005: The CLR Enters the Relational Stage
(Ciprian Jichici) This article describes the CLR integration into the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine in detail and provides some background for answering two integration-related questions.
Write Debug/Trace Information to XML
(Josh Smith) An article which demonstrates how to direct trace/debug information to an XML file.
Building .NET Add-Ins for Windows Media Center Edition
(Michael Earls) Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is an exciting platform for enjoying all of your media from the comfort of your sofa. However, there are many times that you might wish to extend Media Center to perform functionality that it does not have “out of the box.” Microsoft has created a
Preparing for Indigo—Choosing the Right Technology Today
(Juval Lowy) Today .NET offers three distinct technologies for application connectivity: Web services, remoting, and Enterprise Services. Each offers something that the other does not: interoperability, extensibility, and productivity. In preparing for Indigo, you need to choose today a technology t
On IBM and native XML
(Philip Howard) Back in colonial days, natives were generally considered second rate. That has all changed, at least in the IT world, where all things native are generally considered to be a “good thing”. However, any term that might be used to describe something worthwhile is open to abuse by marke
The Globalization of Language in Oracle – The NLS_LANG variable
(James Koopmann) Firstly I need to thank the professionals at Oracle for their help in assisting me in getting the facts straight on these globalization articles. If you haven’t noticed, the facts and methods to setting the NLS_LANG variable, in the last article of this series, has been revised.
Implement search paging queries
(Scott Stephens) When building custom search engines, developers often have problems implementing some kind of paging functionality. Learn how you can implement search paging queries using the pseudocolumn ROWNUM. (R)
Tip: Twisting XML with XSLT 2.0
(Jack Herrington) The XML story has two sides: data creators and data consumers. XSL typically falls on the consumer side of the equation, and all too often the format of the data is fixed well before a template gets to it. Take a list of books, for example. You might have an XML file with a list so
PHP is Almost Certainly Coming to the iSeries
(Timothy Prickett Morgan) The iSeries is best known for running RPG and COBOL applications. It can also run Java applications (and do so as well as any other platform) and myriad kinds of middleware to display those RPG, COBOL, and Java applications on various screens and interfaces. But the iSeries