Tim Waugh has released xmlto, a utility designed to act as a single XSL tool-chain "front end" for converting XML source documents into HTML, PDF, and other formats.
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Make SQL Prompt Show Database Name and User
by Ahbaid Gaffoor – Description: This script (fnwhoami.sql) creates a public function (whoami) that allows a user to see the database and user he/she is connected to.
Effective Installation
By Itzik Ben-Gan – Installing SQL Server 2000 is deceptively simple–choosing the wrong options can lead to big headaches later. These detailed instructions will help you make the right decisions.
Interview with Thearon Willis
by James Crowley – An Interview with Thearon Willis, author of Beginning SQL Server 2000 for VB Developers book.
What’s Next for the Database?
By David Stodder and Justin Kestelyn – Strategic business applications count on the database to be rock solid, always available — and yet highly flexible in the face of new demands. A discussion with four industry veterans reveals some key directions.
Google's Gaffe
Paul Prescod explains why moving its API to use SOAP was a backward step for the popular search engine, and argues for a return to a pure HTTP and XML interface.
Deploying Web services with WSDL, Part 2: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
In this article, Bial Siddiqui will discuss details of SOAP communications, how objects expose their functionality using SOAP, how to invoke SOAP objects and how to exchange information between SOAP-aware applications. He'll also demonstrate the deployment of SOAP services for the WSDL applicati
Visual XSLT 1.2 Advances the State of the Art
by A. Russell Jones – ActiveState's Visual XSLT integrates directly into Visual Studio to give you full-featured XSLT editing and debugging capabilities. Read the full review now.
Allow a user to kill certain sessions without giving them the alter system privilege
(Kevin Nicholson) This procedure will allow you to give a user the ability to kill any session other than SYS, SYSTEM, DBSNMP, REPADMIN, OUTLN and the background processes without giving them the alter system privilege. (R)
Writing Stored Procedures in SQLJ
by Boris Milrud – Learn how to write, load, and run a SQLJ stored procedure on an Oracle database, and see how its results compare with PL/SQL’s.