(Ed Tittel) On January 18, 2005, a group of RSS users announced the release of RSS 1.1: RDF Site Summary. Though RSS is subject to multiple decodings, it’s usually interpreted as “Rich Site Summary,” “RDF Site Summary” (where RDF in turn stands for “Resource Description Format,”) or “Really Simple S
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Using WSE DIME in .NET
(Phillip Perkins) WSE helps developers build scalable, secure Web services that cross security domains. It also supports sending SOAP messages using transports other than HTTP. Another feature is the ability to build a SOAP router, so SOAP messages could be sent to a SOAP router and the router will
DB2 UDB, WebSphere, and iBATIS
(Owen Cline) Learn how to use iBATIS in Java applications and J2EE applications. This article covers the iBATIS syntax, accessing data sources, setting up WebSphere Studio Application Developer Version 5.1.2 projects to support iBATIS, and querying DB2 Universal Database Version 8.1 (DB2) using iBAT
Five Cool Things About iSeries Access
(Carole A. Miner) When I was asked to write an article on five cool things about iSeries Access, I readily agreed. But then when I tried to narrow down my list to five, I had a difficult choice. Just for fun, before you read this article, make your own list. I’ll bet few of us will have the same sel
All About Transactions – Part 3
(Don Peterson) Part 1 of this series introduced transactions in general and then examined SQL Server’s Transaction Modes and nested transactions. Part 2 dealt with error handling and its effect on transactions. In this article I will explore the ins and outs of Transaction Isolation Levels. So f
An ODBC query through Microsoft Access or MSQuery fails with Host Integration Server ODBC for DB2 driver
When you try to perform a query to a linked table view in Microsoft Host Integration Server 2000 ODBC for DB2 driver from Microsoft Access, you may receive the following error message: ODBC–call failed. [Microsoft][ODBC DB2 Driver] Invalid string or buffer length. (#0)
Oracle ODBC driver returns SQL_DECIMAL for all convert function calls
When you perform a query on an Oracle database by using the ODBC CONVERT function, the Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle requests that the data be converted to DECIMAL for all ODBC integer types. DECIMAL is the default Oracle convert type. The following code is an example of this query: SELECT {fn
Learn SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Enhancements
(Jim Duffy) SQL Server 2005 or "Yukon" is going to be a major SQL Server update containing updates to nearly every facet of the program, including T-SQL.
ASP.NET version of ‘XML to HTML (via XSL)’
This sample script takes an XML file and an XSL file and combines them to produce whatever output you want. The sample files we use simply take some of our sample data and convert it to a basic HTML table, but you can use the same code to convert your data to whatever format you want… just by chan
Installing and Configuring SQL Server Reporting Services (Sample Chapter)
(William Vaughn and Peter Blackburn) This chapter details the installation and configuration of SQL Server reporting services, providing advice on testing and options for this useful function.