by Roger Jennings – Ensure Web service interoperability with Web methods that accept and return serialized objects, XML documents, and simple data types.
Other News
RPV: Triples Made Plain
by Kendall Grant Clark – For as long as RDF has existed, people have been trying to fix it. My predecessor in this spot, Leigh Dodds, wrote a column in the summer of 2000 (“Instant RDF”) in which he discussed efforts to respond to complaints about RDF’s complexity. At that relatively early point, th
Secrets of High-Availability Design
by Matthieu Devin – High availability requires the right kind of infrastructure—but performance can suffer if you don’t leverage that infrastructure with savvy J2EE application-design strategies.
More Than a Little Help from My Friends
By Brian Moran – Online peer support is a great option and can meet your support needs much of the time, but it isn’t always the best option. Sometimes paying a small fee and taking advantage of Microsoft’s paid product-support can save the day–and your database.
SmallLibrary Sample: Incorporating Notification Services
By David Willson – Demonstrates how adding Microsoft SQL Server Notification Services as a feature can enhance an existing application. Gives an overview of an existing, simplified library management Web application, and the process of designing the notification service features for the library.
Identifying performance issues using SQL Server Profiler
By Vyas Kondreddi – It is always better to be proactive than reactive, when it comes to identifying and eliminating SQL Server performance issues. This article shows you how to analyze the data gathered by Profiler, to identify the performance issues. This article also provides four generic stored p
Compressing XML Documents with SharpZipLib
XML documents tend to be quite verbose since their overall purpose is to describe data. As a result, documents can become quite large which presents a problem when they need to be exchanged with other entities. This sample application demonstrates how to use the open source SharpZipLib component to
XML creator says royalty-based standards could work
By Eric B. Parizo – Hollander — who co-created XML, leads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s XML Schemas Working Group, and participates in its Web Services Architecture Working Group — is the chief technology officer at Contivo Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that looks to reduce i
Tip: Control white space in an XSLT style sheet
By Nicholas Chase – Because the style sheet and the source document in an XSLT transformation have different rules regarding white space stripping, it often seems as though the production of spaces and line breaks has no rhyme or reason in the process. This tip shows you how to control the productio
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Web Services Toolkit
The Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Web Services Toolkit delivers tools, code, samples and whitepapers for building XML Web services and Web applications with SQL Server 2000. This toolkit enables developers to easily create XML Web services via SQLXML 3.0.