(Russell Butek and Richard Scheuerle, Jr.) This tip introduces roundtripping, its definition, and its use. It begins to point out some roundtripping issues with the JAX-RPC specification. Subsequent tips will cover more issues in greater detail.
Other News
Synchronize Your Databases with .NET Web Services (Part II)
(Alex Homer) This article expands on the principles discussed in the previous article to build a utility that synchronizes the contents of two or more databases over the Internet, delivering to each the rows that have been added to any other.
Stored Procedures, Triggers and User Defined Functions on DB2 Universal Database for iSeries
(Hernando Bedoya) Stored procedures, triggers and User Defined Functions are the key database features for developing robust and distributed applications. In V5R1, SQL Triggers are supported on DB2 Universal Database for iSeries to give much more portability to the database. This IBM Redbook inc
The Building Data Warehouse Data Model
(Joyce Bischoff) In contrast to a traditional transaction processing system, the process of designing a data warehouse is iterative in nature. We take a first cut at the warehouse design and wait for feedback from users regarding changing requirements – and change they will. It is only after users a
Savvy Supersizing Strategies
(Daniel Liu) Remember when a 5GB database seemed huge? It wasn’t that long ago, says Daniel Liu, Senior Technical Consultant at First American Real Estate Solutions (RES). “Five years ago,” Liu recalls, “when I was talking to other Oracle professionals, I would say, ‘Well, my data warehouse is about
How to upgrade an Internet Information Services server after applying SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 or SQL Server 2000 Service Pack SP3a
This article describes how to upgrade a Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) server after the installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a (SP3a).
Scalability and Very Large Database (VLDB) Resources
Find the tools and resources you need to achieve the highest levels of scalability using SQL Server.
Reporting Services!
(Mike Pearson) When word of SQL Server Reporting Services (SQLRS) first got out – it caused a huge amount of ‘movement’ in the reporting industry. I have seen reactions to it that range from borderline hysterical to “ho-hum version 1 stuff”. So just how good is it really, and once all the marketing
Do You Queue?
(Cameron O’Rourke) Do your users complain about a slow-running application that you have tried to tune but just can’t make run fast enough? Perhaps you need to take a hard look at the amount of processing your application does while the user is waiting. Could some of it be done in the background?
Refactoring with XSLT and JavaScript
(Edmond Woychowsky) A while back I wrote an article on how to extend XSLT through the use of JavaScript. Recently I found myself revisiting this subject due to an unusually pesky problem—I was assigned the task of rewriting the order summary page for the company’s Web-based order entry system. It wa