(Rich Salz) I recently read the Last Call drafts from the Web Services Description Working Group of the W3C. I had no choice; I was on a cross-country flight, my laptop batteries were dead, and the in-flight movie was execrable.
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Tuning SQL Statements on Microsoft SQL Server 2000
(Kevin Kline and Claudia Fernandez) This paper covers the basic techniques used to tune SELECT statements on Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 relational database management system. We discuss the techniques available using Microsoft’s graphical user interfaces provided in Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manage
Develop a .NET Compact Framework app with DB2e Sync Client
The DB2 Everyplace Sync Client API allows you to develop applications to handle bi-directional synchronization of relational data between a DB2 Everyplace Server and your hand-held device. The Sync Client API supports a wide variety of platforms including Palm, Pocket PC, Windows, Linux, and more. I
Illusory connectivity: Web sites to databases
(Alan Earls) Ellis Admire, director of emerging technologies at Direct Holdings, parent company of catalog fashion retailer Lillian Vernon, found himself in a tough spot about four years ago when it became clear the company needed to jump into Web retailing in a big way. His options were to create a
Build a database front end with ASP
(Sanders Kaufman, Jr.) There are various ways to interface with a database, including Access and HTML, but one approach takes advantage of legacy Microsoft ASP (with ADO/ADOX) to build a front end. This method, which I will explain below, uses sample code that provides a quick and dirty applicatio
New DataSet Features in ADO.NET 2.0
(Jackie Goldstein) Learn about the new ADO.NET 2.0 features in the DataSet .NET Framework class and the classes that are closely related to it. These changes include both functional and performance enhancements to the DataSet, DataTable, and DataView classes.
Creating a PHP-Based Content Management System, Part 4
(Peter Zeidman) When Keats wrote “There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object,” he probably wasn’t referring to the objects that make up the content management system we’ve been developing in this series. A testament to his forethought, if a component of our system fails then it w
Exotic use of a User Defined Function
(Leo Peysakhovich) One of our clients gave us requirements that an XML file was supposed to be FTP’d to the client when a new record appeared or an old one is changed in a table. This is simple process, nothing new. The business front end application was created, tested, and distributed to p
Python and DB2 for Linux
Python is a great tool to use with DB2 Version 8. It combines the ability to quickly and simply access a DB2 database with the power to perform more complex tasks that require a general-purpose programming language. You’ll learn about the Python DB2 module using the sample that ships with DB2 Versio
MaxDB & PHP – Ready for the Web!
(Ulf Wendel) MaxDB by MySQL is one of the two enterprise level databases of MySQL AB. MaxDB has its origins in Adabas D which in 1997 was bought from Software AG by SAP, Europe’s largest software development company. SAP continued the development of the database and made it a stable, powerful and re