This working draft describes SVG’s XML Binding Language (sXBL). sXBL is a mechanism for defining the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in a namespace other than SVG’s. sXBL is intended to be used to enable XML vocabularies (tag sets) to be implemented in terms of SVG ele
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Mapping and Markup, Part 1
(John E. Simpson) One frustration you can still hear vented when someone first comes to XML takes the form, “Yeah, but what about the real world?” or “Show me some real-world examples!” What the speaker often means by this is that he or she simply needs to see XML in action, in some form–some a
Welded shut: How to patch vulnerabilities and keep them sealed
(George Wrenn) Despite (or perhaps because of) vendors’ attempts to release patches on regular intervals, enterprises are still racing to seal holes in their infrastructures. Every extra minute a system remains unpatched is another opportunity for worms, backdoors, rooters and Trojans to infiltrate
Database Design and Modeling for Programmers
(Chad Z. Hower) This article will allow you to design databases that are flexible, scalable and easy to maintain. They should also be of the caliber that when an actual DBA or another programmer inherits your system they will not want to go find another job. This is not intended to train you to
RELAX NG with custom datatype libraries
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) RELAX NG can do almost everything the W3C XML Schema language can do, including verifying constraints on text content and attribute values specified with the W3C XML Schema simple types. However, some constraints still can’t be stated in anything less than a Turing-complete l
Efficient Coding With Strongly Typed DataSets
(John Papa) Someone once said to me that the hallmark of a good developer is the desire to spend time efficiently. Developers are continually pursuing ways to make coding easier and faster, and to reduce the number of errors. Using strongly typed DataSet objects in ADO.NET can help you do just that.
Disaster Recovery with DB2 UDB for z/OS
(Paolo Bruni, Pierluigi Buratti, Florence Dubois, Judy Ruby-Brown, Christian Skalberg, Tsumugi Taira and Kyungsoon Um) DB2 for z/OS is the database of choice for critical data for many enterprises. It is becoming more and more important to protect this data in case of disaster and to be able to res
High-performance SQL
(Serge Rielau) This article introduces advanced SQL features which are being used in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 UDB for LUW) TPC-C benchmarks. Find out how to use these features in everyday customer environments.
Monitoring Performance, Part 3
(Roger E. Sanders) In two previous columns in this series, I explained the two kinds of tools that make up the Database System Monitor: a snapshot monitor and event monitors. The snapshot monitor captures information about the current state of an instance and/or database at a given point, while even
SQL Server 2000 Indexing
(Steve Jones) One of the keys to SQL Server performance is ensuring that you have the proper indexes on a table so that any queries written against this table can run efficiently. There are more articles written about designing indexes, choosing columns, etc for optimizing performance, so I will