This week, Brian Moran looks at reader feedback about his Slammer columns, and explores suggestions about how Microsoft can help avoid Slammer-like problems in the future.
Other News
Working with XML in .NET – Part I
In this article you’ll learn about basics of XML processing in .NET. More specifically, this article includes Visual Basic .NET, C# .NET, and C++ .NET code examples to illustrate:
Study: Oracle leads portal space
By Stacy Cowley – Enterprise portals are becoming ubiquitous, according to a new study by Jupiter Research: More than 80 percent of polled companies said they now have or will deploy within a year a portal site for their employees.
Selecting a VoiceXML Gateway
By Hitesh Seth – As an open standard, VoiceXML truly leverages the knowledge and products that the industry has developed around Advanced Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), telephony interfaces, voice printing, and Voice over IP (VoIP). As an open standard, what VoiceXML has made possib
More XMLMap: XML about Content
Continuing our charting of the XMLMap we examine the use of XML as a content description and content transfer format. Discussions about tagging documents with meta data and publishing documents to Web servers conincided with the development of XML, and created first ideas on how to use XML in or wit
Killing the Oracle DBMS_JOB
If you’ve ever had a problem with a run-away job that didn’t want to end, or found that you needed to shut down the database only to find it was waiting for a job to complete, Koopmann can help. Learn how to manage those jobs that don’t want to end.
EXSLT by example
Community standards have had a very important role in XML technology, from SAX to RDDL. The most important community standard for XSLT is the EXSLT initiative for standard extension functions and elements. In this article, Uche Ogbuji uses practical examples to introduce and demonstrate some useful
XP and XML
by Eric van der Vlist – The links between the XP and XML communities were covered last year in an XML.com article by Leigh Dodds, “XP Meets XML”. I will cover the technical relationships between XP and XML in the remainder of this article.
XMLmind XML Editor Version 2.1 released
XMLmind XML Editor (XXE for short) is an XML editor featuring DTD and XML Schema aware editing commands and a word processor-like view configured using W3C’s cascading style sheets (CSS). See Features for more information.
Strategies to Reduce SQL Server Blocking
by Sancho Fock – Learn how to identify and reduce SQL Server blocking.
