For anyone familiar with using SQL Server on the Desktop, and now looking to use SSCE, one tool that will be missed right away is Enterprise Manager. Tim Chaffee of Object Design Works has written this excellent and pioneering article covering some of the aspects of managing a database on the CE dev
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How to Restrict the Inner Table of an ANSI Outer Join
SQL Server 6.5 and later support the ANSI-style join syntax for cross, inner, and outer joins. Restricting the inner table of an ANSI-style outer join may appear to return results that differ from those returned using the Transact-SQL-style outer join syntax. This article discusses the situation in
Build a Web Services-Based Interface
by Enrique Castro – Here’s a collaborative solution that employs Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in a simple, Web-based, peer-to-peer publish/subscribe service.
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 Part 1
By Hitesh Seth – Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 provides an out-of-box solution for integrating internal systems and external business partners. BizTalk Server 2002 is its second generation, succeeding BizTalk Server 2000. It is built on top of a core Microsoft Windows 2000-centric infrastructure run
XPath Tutorial
XPath is described in XPath 1.0 standard. In this tutorial selected XPath features are demonstrated on many examples.
XML Watch: WBXML and basic SyncML server requirements
In the second installment of his quest to make his data available wherever and whenever he wants by using SyncML, Edd Dumbill encounters Wireless Binary XML (WBXML) and examines the minimum functionality required for a SyncML server.
Oracle Updates Data Warehouse Tools
By Barbara Darrow – The newly updated Oracle9i Warehouse Builder tool claims to break down the walls between silos of corporate information. Version 9.0.4 can extract data from IBM’s DB2, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle’s homegrown database, said John Magee, vice president of product
What’s in a topic map?
In our last extension of the XMLMap we closed with a discussion of ontologies and topic maps, both concepts for expressing semantics of resources. I received many questions on the rather abstract nature of these concepts, as well as their practical applications and implications. This installment tri
XML Editor and XML Browser Framework
The eXchaNGeR XML editor and XML browser framework, visualizes elements in a XML document. The user can browse through and manage the visible elements in the document with external services, or she can make changes to the content of the XML document with the built-in XML editor.
The Road to XHTML 2.0: MIME Types
by Mark Pilgrim – Let’s pretend that you’ve migrated to XHTML — probably XHTML 1.0 Transitional, unless you’re one of those weird geek alpha designers who insist on doing everything with Strict DOCTYPEs. It wasn’t that hard, right?