By THOMAS HOFFMAN – Rapid application development (RAD), security and XML skills generated the top IT pay in the fourth quarter, according to a new report from New Canaan, Conn.-based Foote Partners LLC.
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Web speech spec gets tongue-tied
By Paul Festa – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday issued VoiceXML 2.0 as a candidate recommendation, the penultimate stage in the consortium’s approval process.
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by John E. Simpson – As you’ve evidently been learning, moving data by hand between XML and relational databases can be frustrating, intellectually stimulating, maybe even rewarding. Mostly, though, it can leave you simply hungry for help.For almost anything involving getting XML data into o
Backup and Restore – Back to Basics with SQL LiteSpeed
One of the most important aspects for a database environment is ensuring reliable backups are being executed and a dependable recovery plan is established in the event of a system failure or data corruption. Several options are available for defining your backup and recovery model and your choices
SQL Server Optimization Tips for Designing Tables
Alexander Chigrik offers 15 optimization tips for ensuring that you’ve constructed your SQL Server tables to perform in the most efficient manner possible.
Slammer Worm Raises Bigger Security Questions
By Dennis Fisher – The security researcher whose code was used as a template for the Slammer worm is now reconsidering his position on releasing sample exploit code. David Litchfield, co-founder of Next Generation Security Software Ltd., in Surrey, England, said in a post to the BugTraq maili
New Oracle9i Application Developer Certification Track Beta Exam
The second exam in this new track is in beta and available for only US$50 from January 6, 2003 through March 6, 2003.
Beware of the System Generated Constraint Name
No one writes code that references constraint names so it is not important to name a constraint. If this is your thought, it may be time to think again. Eventually you are bound to end up coding a small piece of T-SQL code, which will reference a constraint name; you had better be aware that constra
How To Retrieve Relational Data Using OpenXML with ADO in Visual C++
OpenXML.exe demonstrates how to retrieve an ADO Recordset from an input XML document by using the OpenXML feature in SQL Server 2000.
Backup and Restore – Back to Basics with SQL LiteSpeed
This article by Greg Robidoux provides some great information about SQL LiteSpeed. One of the most important aspects for a database environment is ensuring reliable backups are being executed and a dependable recovery plan is established in the event of a system failure or data corruption. Sev