Foam is a .Net Windows application that is used to ease the creation of FOR XML EXPLICIT queries for use with MS SQL Server 2000. Foam does this by taking an XML document that you have formatted according to the incredibly simple structure specified below, and then parsing through the document to cr
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Programming Visual Basic .NET: ADO.NET
Many software applications benefit from storing their data in database management systems. In this book excerpt, the author show you how to connect to a SQL Server using ADO.
HOWTO: Retrieve XML Data by Using a SQL XML Query
If you run an ADODB command stream and specify SQL SELECT with the FOR XML AUTO clause, an XML document stream is fetched from SQL Server and displayed in the Visual Basic Intermediate window.
Best Practices for Business Intelligence Using the Microsoft Data Warehousing Framework
Discover best practices and suggestions for working with Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Analysis Services for analytic applications. These practices and suggestions have been compiled from answers to questions submitted by developers and customers, and cover topics ranging from dimensional model
Did You Know? — By Hervé Deschamps
Check out what Hervé Deschamps wrote about this month. Apps: yellow bar, logs. Reports: anchoring, shortcuts, symbols ref. NT stuff. HP printers as web servers.
Ellison: Linux/9i a Dream Team
Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison tried to woo the LinuxWorld crowd Wednesday by extolling the benefits of running mission-critical enterprise applications on Linux and Oracle’s 9i database.Ellison, in a keynote that concentrated on Oracle’s “unbreakable Linux” push launched in Jun
Using XSLT and .NET to Manipulate XML Files
By Cynthia Carolina – XML Stylesheet Transformations (XSLT) is defined as a language for transforming source XML documents into another document formats using XML Path Language (XPath) as a query language. This is particularly useful when incoming or outgoing XML documents do not match the document
Converting between Java objects and XML with Quick
By Brett McLaughlin – Quick is an open source data binding framework with an emphasis on runtime transformations. This instructional article shows you how to use this framework to quickly and painlessly turn your Java data into XML documents, without the class generation semantics required by other
X12 Reference Model for XML Design
This technical report outlines common design patterns and tradeoffs in XML language design.
Xerces C++ 2.0.0 released
Version 2.0.0 of the popular XML parser Xerces C++ has been released.