by Howard Katz – After a brief discussion of grammars, parsers, and BNF, this article introduces JavaCC, a popular parser generator tool. You’ll develop sample code that uses JavaCC to build a custom parser, starting from a BNF description of the grammar. Part 2 goes on to show how to use an auxilli
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SYWARE’s sqlceEnable Software Adds Mobile Reporting and Printing Interface to SQL Server CE Databases
SYWARE, Inc., a leading developer of intuitive, mobile database tools for business and personal productivity, announced sqlceEnable™, a new software tool that allows mobile professionals to create and print custom reports from any Pocket PC or Windows CE device using data from SQL Server CE database
IBM, Microsoft Advance XQuery Standard
By Erika Morphy – Like all open standards, XQuery will level the playing field for the next generation of XML-based applications, says AMR Research’s Louis Columbus. “Now it will be possible to create, search, syndicate and populate taxonomies entirely based on XML-originated data.”
Book Review: “Web Services: A Technical Introduction”
Now that Web services passed the peak of the hype curve and have moved into productive use, Prentice Hall’s Deitel Developer Series provides a technical introduction to Web services that is packed with information on business models, vendors and products as well as base technology.
All That We Can Leave Behind
by Mark Pilgrim – Last month I promised an article on the venerable tag, which has been dropped from XHTML 2.0. It was supposed to be a gentle introduction to “stuff we lose in XHTML 2.0, and what we gain in return”. However, during the course of researching, I realized that it was turning out
Oracle exec: ‘We are targeting Microsoft’
By Ellen O’Brien – Oracle senior vice president of database server technologies Andy Mendelsohn is all worked up over XML, Oracle’s new low-cost message, and the way customers are buying into Real Application Clusters (RAC). In coming weeks, Oracle will target Microsoft with a campaign to convince c
Upgrade an Instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3
This step-by-step article describes how to upgrade an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (also known as MSDE 2000) to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3).
Microsoft Stays On Top of OLAP Heap
By Lisa Vaas – Microsoft Corp. edged out Hyperion Solutions to nab the leadership position in the $3 billion OLAP market in 2002, according to the latest edition of The OLAP Report.The biggest single reason for Microsoft’s success is pricing, according to Nigel Pendse, the report’s author.
A Comparison of SQL Server 2000 with DB2 v8.1
Alexander Chigrik compares SQL Server 2000 with DB2 Universal Database version 8.1 regarding price, performance, platforms supported, SQL dialects, and products limits.
Microsoft Bundle Eases Collaboration
By Paula Rooney – Microsoft is taking another stab at the application hosting market by releasing bundled solutions that are designed to reduce costs for service providers and their customers.The software giant released Solution for High Volume Exchange (HVE), an Internet messaging and colla