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Use Globally Unique Identifiers in Access and SQL Server
When your business outgrows your database systems, using globally unique identifier (GUID) values in Access and SQL Server can offer a timely solution.
Using XSLT to Assist Regression Testing
by Sal Mangano – Recently, colleagues of mine asked if I knew of a tool that could help them regression-test some code which outputs XML. The problem was, they explained, that their changes may affect the order of elements. However, for their application, the order did not matter as long as the hier
Autonomous and Distributed Transactions in Oracle 8i/9i
This article presents a basic introduction to transaction processing in PL/SQL and primarily focuses on the Autonomous transaction processing feature of PL/SQL and the changes that have occurred from Oracle 8i to 9i.
Space estimation script :: (Script Library)
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Make Room for the Monster Databases
By Joe McKendrick – They’re big, and they’re getting bigger. New statistics out of Winter Corporation – an analyst firm that tracks database size on an annual basis – find that databases are poised to hit the 100-terabyte mark within the next two years. Remarkable, considering that just a year ago,
A Talk With Database Guru Jim Gray
Interview by Lee Thé – Find out about the future of SQL Server 2000 and extreme scaling from Microsoft’s resident expert in large databases.
Under deadline, power provider implements critical Web service
By Eric B. Parizo – Even when Entergy and its fellow energy providers began using comma-separated values (CSV) files a few years ago to submit their orders to one another, it was still nearly impossible to record, with complete accuracy, where electricity was coming from and going to and who should
Web Services Solutions Directory
A comprehensive listing of XML Web services tool vendors and their product offerings.
SOAP Builders @ Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SOAP Builders is a loosely organized forum of SOAP vendors working towards a testbed for interoperability testing between SOAP implementations. Interoperability is demonstrated by implementing a canonical set of tests that are collectively defined by the participants in the forum. Vendors prepare te