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Seven Ways to Mess Up with XML

(PG Bartlett) A successful XML publishing project inspired this article. The project’s leader, who claims that the financial return gained for his company “made his career” there, achieved success for two reasons: he focused on the right goals and executed the project in the right way. This arti

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@@IDENTITY crisis

(Manohar Kamath) If you have worked with SQL Server, you are probably familiar with identity columns. These are equivalent to the “AutoNumber” columns in Access. The main purpose of these columns is to provide a primary key to the table, when a primary key can not be defined using other fields in th

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Linux Databases: DB2 vs. Oracle

(Branham Group) This is a report prepared by Branham Group Inc. that compares the two leading commercial database software packages for Linux: Oracle 9i version 9.2 Enterprise and IBM DB2 version 8.1.2 ESE. Comparison is based on cost of ownership, ease-of-use, reliability, and scalability. The resu

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Getting PDC Content

(Brian Moran) If you didn’t make it to the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year, then you missed a tremendous amount of information about upcoming Microsoft technologies, including SQL Server’s next release, code-named Yukon. Fortunately, you don’t have to miss all the techni