A Microsoft official stressed the importance of web services in building the future of IT at the TechEd 2003 conference in Dallas.
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Converting Flat-Files to XML using the XmlTextWriter
Although XML is in widespread use throughout the world now, there are still many “legacy” systems that do not know a thing about XML or how to use it. Many of these systems work with different types of flat-files that delimit data using commas, tabs, or have fixed-length fields. The keyword here is
Regular Expression Matching in XSLT 2
by Bob DuCharme – Because XSLT is for manipulating XML documents, and XML documents are text, XSLT developers with any experience in Unix-based utilities often wish that XSLT would let them use regular expressions. XSLT 2.0 grants this wish. XPath 2.0 gives XSLT 2.0 three new functions that can take
DB2 regular expressions for the SQL-challenged
By Jim Keohane – Fans of MySQL and mSQL taunt DB2 users about DB2’s lack of support for the non-standard RLIKE/REGEXP facility in SELECT and other SQL statements.
Access DB2 with Web services
By Quentin Presley – Web services enable you to quickly integrate applications across multiple platforms, systems and even across businesses. This tutorial demonstrates how easily you can make your DB2 data accessible through Web services. It shows how to use the Application Developer configuration
Express Your Business with IBM DB2
By Patricia Fusco – Dubbed DB2 Universal Database Express, IBM’s new full-function database for the mid-market is designed to install itself with no mouse clicks required and is priced 30 percent less than other database management systems.
DTS on the Move
By Shane Dovers – Optimum portability is one of the most important goals in creating a Data Transformation Services package that can execute properly on virtually any server.
Book Review: Murach’s SQL for SQL Server
By Vyas Kondreddi – Are you a VB, Web or Windows developer? Completely new to SQL programming? Look no further! This book is just for you. “Murach’s SQL for SQL Server” is a good first book for anyone interested in learning the basics of SQL programming, and becoming a database developer, or probabl
Oracle Makes Bid for PeopleSoft
By Scot Petersen – Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison shocked the technology world with news that he plans to make a $5.1 billion offer to buy ERP rival Peoplesoft Inc., according to the company.
Data binding with JAXB
In this tutorial you learn to use data binding to easily map data stored in XML documents to Java objects and back again. You won’t have to worry about parsing XML or navigating a tree asking for child nodes and parents. You start with an XML Schema and process it into Java source files. Once you ha