(Vinod Kumar) Most DBA’s in various organizations are confronted with this simple little feature during their normal database-monitoring carrier. Most often the effects of the same are not realized unless we see the side effects of the same in the production code machines. This article would take yo
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Tip: Use XInclude to synchronize WSDL with source schemata
(Uche Ogbuji) In the document/literal style of Web services, the schemas of the interchange formats are often based on an existing document standard. This can cause problems synchronizing WSDL files with the standard schemata. This tip shows how to use XInclude to incorporate external schema fragmen
Executing a Package from Visual Basic
(Brian Knight) So you’ve created a SQL Server package and now you’re ready to integrate it into your Visual Basic application? A common scenario for this is where you don’t want a client to have direct access to SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Instead, you can send them a Visual Basic executable to p
XML Data Binding Resources
(Ronald Bourret) This is a list of resources about XML data binding.
Implementing a DB2 Federated Database System
(Sujit K. Mishra) A DB2 federated system is a distributed computing system that consists of: –A DB2 server, called a federated server. –A local database called Federated Database, which is logically within Federated Server and multiple data sources to which the federated server sends queries
When Less is More [database sizes]
(Robert Catterall) Want the skinny on database efficiency? Think lean and mean. Bigger is not always better. For someone born and raised in the great state of Texas, that’s not easy to say. It’s not even easy to type.
The Social Life of XML
(Jon Udell) I recently found a picture of the panelists at the XML DevCon 2001 session entitled “The Importance of XML.” My body language told the story: I wasn’t a happy camper. Of course I agreed with all the reasons the panel thought XML was important: for web services, for interprocess communica
Is it possible to transfer data from SQL Server into an XML format in a predefined way as specified by a client?
(Greg Robidoux and Jeremy Kadlec) XML (Extensive Markup Language) has been defined by the World Wide Web Consortium and has become the defacto standard to exchange data between organizations, replacing file width text files, as well as the previous EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) standard. XML is
Three More Ideas For XML Output
(Uche Ogbuji) This column has touched on some advanced XML processing topics, but I keep coming back to basics. The reason for this is that the two most common XML processing tasks for Python users are to extract particular data fields from XML files and to generate XML in order to feed another prog
XML Messaging in WSE 2.0
(Jesus Rodriguez) In the past few years SOAP has emerged as one of the most widely used standards in distributed environments. Far beyond communicating with objects in remote leases, it may also define an extensible XML messaging framework to exchange XML messages between Internet objects. According