by Laurence Moroney – The conversion of the native office document format to XML allows developers to create documents on the fly and serve them from a Web service. Read this article to learn how.
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Tip: Using generators
Generators are a very powerful new language feature of Python 2.2. In this tip, Uche Ogbuji presents a set of techniques for using generators for fast and lucid XML processing patterns in Python.
Printing from XML: An Introduction to XSL-FO
by Dave Pawson – One of the issues many users face when introduced to the production of print from XML is that of page layout. Without having the page layout right, its unlikely that much progress will be made. By way of introducing the W3C XSL Formatting Objects recommendation, I want to present a
SQL Server 2000 Full-Text Search Deployment White Paper
The SQL Server 2000 Full-Text Search Deployment white paper is for database administrators who have to deploy full-text search applications, currently use full-text search, or want to explore what full-text search offers. It outlines the hardware and operating system requirements for efficient full
Diagnose Server Performance Problems with SQL Server’s SQL Profiler
By Andrew Georgopulos – Databases are complicated because they have so many interdependent elements. The components’ interdependence is most evident when trying to improve server performance. When things slow down and performance seems to flag, organizations tend to look at the server as the source
Lexmark writes off million-dollar Oracle project
By Margaret Kane – Lexmark has been forced to swallow a $15m loss after an Oracle customer relationship management project went awry.
Fast Delete of Duplicate Rows
by Riju George – With reference to your tip for the week 08/04/2002 submitted by Madan Patil, this is another way of deleting duplicate rows from a table. The difference being the time it takes to delete the duplicate rows with this method is many times faster than the earlier method.
INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE Costs
by Joe Chang – If you can’t wait until the final version of this article on INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE costs in SQL Server, this preliminary article on INSERT costs is a good start.
W3C proposes XML encryption methods
By Paul Festa – The Web’s leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization’s push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.
Read XML from a File by Using Visual Basic .NET
This article demonstrates how to use the XmlTextReader class to read Extensible Markup Language (XML) from a file. XmlTextReader provides direct parsing and tokenizing of XML and implements the XML 1.0 specification as well as the namespaces in XML specification from the World Wide Web Consortium (W