by Leigh Dodds – The XML-Deviant this week takes a brief look back over the REST debate, to see what's been learned, and what's still to be done.
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Upgrading from SQL 7 to SQL 2000
By AjarnMark – When you are ready to make the jump to SQL 2000, you will find that there are several ways that you can do this. Of course, each method has its advantages and disadvantages, and which one you choose will be based on a number of factors. I will attempt to introduce these factors and ho
Microsoft reaches out to Java developers
By Paul Krill – MICROSOFT released a JDBC driver enabling Java developers to utilize Microsoft’s SQL Sever 2000 database as a data management system for Java applications.
Pink slips anyone? Top 20 mistakes an Oracle DBA can make, Part II
By Ed Parry – Wanna stop being a DBA ASAP?Do one of the twenty things seasoned DBA and Oracle expert Rachel Carmichael of Dragonfly Consulting LLC listed in her presentation last month at the Oracle user event IOUG Live!, and your IT death wish might come true.
SQLXML 3.0 and .Net Leverage Web Services
by Randy Holloway – Learn how to use SQLXML 3.0 and its managed classes in .Net to extend Web services' functionality with SQL Server.
Hacker exposes holes in .Net
By Robert Lemos – H.D. Moore, a hacker and senior security analyst for Digital Defense, told attendees of the CanSecWest security conference here that the .Net Framework could nearly eliminate some types of vulnerabilities that plague Microsoft products today, but that the server software is still e
RelaxNGCC — Bridging the Gap Between Schemas and Programs
by Daisuke Okajima – The primary reason schema languages exist is validation, a process to determine whether an XML instance meets the constraints imposed by a schema. Although many people only use schemas to validate XML, the capabilities of a schema can exceed validation. In this article, we exami
Sophisticated Mining with Oracle Text
By Douglas Scherer – I often get asked if Oracle Text can replace full-blown document management systems, but I don’t see Oracle Text as a competitor to these systems. When combined with other Oracle database features such as Internet File System (Oracle9iFS) and the new XML datatype (XMLType), Orac
Query Analyzer Shortcuts
By Michael Otey – Query Analyzer is one of the most frequently used utilities in SQL Server’s tool set. Here are seven keyboard shortcuts that make Query Analyzer a more effective and productive tool.
Essential SQL Server 2000
Written by Buck Woody – When a new release of SQL Server comes out, there are many books rushed to publication so that they are released at the same time the new version of SQL Server is released. Unfortunately, this “book rush” often leads to poor quality books. But if you wait some time after a n