By Chris Cubley – You are creating a payroll processing system. At the end of each pay cycle, the system must compute the payroll for that pay cycle based upon the records of the employees’ hours and various configuration tables such as taxes, deductions, etc. The data in the configuration tables wi
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Integrating data at run time with XSLT style sheets
Many applications now take advantage of Web services technology, which allows the integration of applications regardless of platform or programming language. The use of XML-based standards makes this possible. However, integrating that data into user output during run time can be a challenge. In thi
RelaxMeter tests for ambiguity
Kohsuke Kawaguchi announced the release of RelaxMeter, an MIT-licensed Java tool that demonstrates that an “unambiguous subset of RELAX NG can be easily defined”.
SQL Server Best Practices: Tools & Techniques for Improving Production Operations
Learn how to avoid common problems that affect operations, including unexpected SQL Server outages, surprise capacity issues and data anomalies, during NetIQ’s FREE one-hour audiocast.NetIQ’s SQL Server management experts will cover how to implement the best practices of the Microsoft Operat
W3C Releases New Version of Web Services Spec WSDL
By Richard Karpinski – The W3C this week released a new version of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), a key protocol for enabling enterprise-class Web services. The new draft version of WSDL 1.2 further details how to define an XML-based description of a Web service — basically, t
Cracking MS SQL Server passwords
By Thomas C Greene – The inner workings of the undocumented pwdencrypt() hash function in Microsoft SQL Server have been revealed in a paper by security researcher David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software (NGSS).
Expose SQL Server Stored Procedures With SQLXML 3.0
by Jay Schmelzer – The SQLXML Web releases provide several new features for interacting with a SQL Server 2000 database using XML technologies. SQLXML 3.0 continues to build on these features, adding the ability to expose SQL Server 2000 data using XML-based Web services. SQLXML 3.0 makes exposing S
Microsoft seeks 64-bit SQL Server beta candidates
By Paul Krill – MICROSOFT IS SEEKING candidates to test Beta 2 of its 64-bit SQL Server 2000 Enterprise database which is being optimized for Intel Itanium 2 hardware platform launched on Monday.
Webs At Rest and In Motion
by Kendall Grant Clark – Careful readers of XML.com have figured out by now that, editorially at least, we are interested in coming to terms with the REST (that is, “representational state transfer”) approach to building applications, particularly Web applications.
Secure Your Web Apps
by Timothy M. Chester – Increase the flexibility and security of your Web apps by leveraging ASP.NET’s built-in FormsAuthenticationModule.In this article, I’ll show you how to use the System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication class in the .NET Framework to build an XML-based authentication sys