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Is it time to say goodbye to SQL?

By Phil Howard – Although it may seem a no-brainer today, SQL took some time to get established with by no means all vendors subscribing to the notion of a common database query language as a useful thing. That, remember, is what SQL was originally designed to do – provide set-based query processing

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Grammars For VoiceXML Applications

by Hitesh Seth – The previous article in this series, “Tools for Developing VoiceXML Applications” (Vol. 2, issue 3), reviewed tools that can aid the development and testing of VoiceXML applications. Now we dive into the mechanisms of writing the grammars and review the standards being developed aro

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ASP.NET Controls Templates

It is easy to create a custom control in ASP.NET by deriving a new class from an already existing control. Creating a new ASP.NET control from scratch, on the other hand, is more challenging. When you need a Web server control and none of the existing ones meet your requirements, you can derive from