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Windows 2003 Supports Only SQL Server 2000 SP3 or Later
Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 product family doesn’t support SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and earlier releases.
Index Tuning Wizard Doesn’t See All
By Brian Moran – SQL Server needs a clear warning sign that lets you know that you need more than the Index Tuning Wizard to find the most efficient indexing strategy for your system, even though it’s helpful in simplifying the complex activity of selecting indexes.
W3C Unleashes VoiceXML 2.0
By Thor Olavsrud – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday delivered a cornerstone of its Speech Interface Framework when it published VoiceXML 2.0. VoiceXML is intended to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response , or IVR, applicati
Create JPEGs automatically with SVG
In this tip, Benoît Marchal discusses a pragmatic approach to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Until the SVG viewer becomes as ubiquitous as the Macromedia Flash player, it will be difficult to incorporate SVG images directly into a Web site. In the meantime, Web developers benefit from generating JP
Debate about appropriate XML processing APIs for desktop system use within the GNOME project
Interesting discussion between Daniel Veillard and Havoc Pennington on the GNOME XML mailing list.
SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a
SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a (SP3a) addresses specific issues discovered in SQL Server 2000 since its ship date.
How to Perform SQL Server Row-by-Row Operations Without Cursors
by David VanDeSompele – Boost SQL Server performance by avoiding cursors using this row-by-row processing technique.
Oracle Technical Interview
Uncertain about the technical interview process? James Koopmann offers 65 technical questions to get you up to speed for that technical interview.
OASIS ratifies SAML 1.1
By Paul Roberts – The OASIS Internet standards consortium said that its members ratified SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) Version 1.1 as an official standard, approving changes to the specification will improve interoperability with other Web services security standards.