Meta Data Browser is a new tool that you can use to browse the contents of a repository database. This tool is introduced in Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Meta Data Services. You can run Meta Data Browser when you select Meta Data Services. Meta Data Services is available for each copy of SQL Server y
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Study: Explosive Growth For XML Server Market
The market for XML server software will continue to grow, reaching $3.5 billion by 2006, according to researcher IDC. A steady demand for new IT integration technologies will drive this growth, IDC said. That demand accounts for a growth rate for XML servers of more than 164 percent from 2000 to
Allchin’s all XML–and Linux
By Charles Cooper – Jim Allchin is not buying the argument that there’s any confusion about Microsoft’s message on Web services. If anything, he says, it’s just the opposite.
Identity Crisis
by Kendall Grant Clark – In last week’s column I discussed the APW’s introduction and some general issues of terminology, especially the confusion, as I see it, of principle with practice. In this week’s column, I examine APW Section 2, Identifiers and Resources.
Instant SQL Server 2000 Applications
Book by Greg Buczek – I don’t know about you, but the way I have learned how to develop applications for the real world is to learn by example. I don’t see any point in trying to reinvent the wheel. If someone has already figured out how to do something, then I want to take advantage of that, not ha
Oracle Delivers World Record TPC-C Benchmark on Linux
Oracle Corp., the world’s largest enterprise software company, announced the world record TPC-C 32-processor clustered benchmark on Linux(1) using Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters. The new clustered world record result achieved 138,362.03 tpmC and a price performance of $17
SQL Server 2000’s user-defined functions add flexibility, cut coding time
By Martin Reid and Susan Harkins – Microsoft’s SQL Server may be a big dog in the enterprise database market, but its conspicuous lack of user-defined functions (UDFs) has stacked up poorly against other leaders of that pack. Oracle, DB2, and even Access (Microsoft’s desktop database) have offered U
Localization within a document format
By Uche Ogbuji – Internationalization support is one of XML’s key strengths. Unfortunately, too few XML formats provide mechanisms for localizing content. This tip shows you how to develop localized XML formats.
XML Events: An Events Syntax for XML
by Shane McCarron – From the Abstraction – "The XML Events module defined in this specification provides XML languages with the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces [DOM2] [p.17] . The result is to prov
Seybold: XML, Weblogs make mark on publishing industry
By Matt Berger – True to the adage, content is still king, according to Patricia Seybold, a noted publishing industry analyst and chief executive of her self-titled consulting and analyst company in Boston. However, new technologies are redefining what the publishing industry should consider content