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How to troubleshoot full-text search problems
In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have whenyou work with full-text search. He also tells you how you can resolve these problems.
Compressing files and directory structures with limited disk space
By Pankaj Gautama – Although storage capacity is growing day-by-day, there are still occasions when there still just isn’t enough. I have found this to be true especially when I need to send or archive a complete directory structure and haven’t enough disk space to perform a tar and then a compress.
Oracle to W3C: ‘You pick web services winner’
Oracle hopes to avert a battle over rival efforts to create web services standards by asking the leading oversight group to pick a winner.
Microsoft to build great wall of Yukon
By Wylie Wong – The next version of SQL Server, code-named “Yukon,” will include a long list of new security-related features when it debuts in 2003, said James Hamilton, SQL Server’s design architect. He said that Microsoft’s database team spent more than a month auditing the software code for secu
Finding the Right Formula For UDDI
By Jeffrey Schwartz – As customers start using Web services to link disparate applications, they will need a way to efficiently organize and keep track of all those Web services. Most experts believe they will do that through repositories based on a specification called universal description and dis
UDDI: Looking Up Web Services
By RUSSELL KAY – There is Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), a standards-based system for registering Web services.
Simple Text Wrapping
by Antoine Quint – Looking through the chapter we can see a number of appealing text features: precise text positioning, support for bidirectional text, text on a path, and so on. However, you’ll find that text wrapping is missing. Let’s see what can be done with the current set of SVG 1.0 features
SQLXML 3.0 SP1
SQLXML 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) addresses specific issues that were discovered in SQLXML 3.0 since its ship date. SP1 is available for download in nine languages.
Microsoft readying database arsenal with Yukon release, 64-bit plans
By Paul Krill – MICROSOFT is marching on with its mission of displacing Unix databases with its own SQL Server platform, and is readying both a 64-bit database and a next-generation database, dubbed Yukon, that focuses on data warehousing and minimizing down time.