By Sandeep Chatterje – This article explores the world of Web Services, and the challenges in developing Web Services-based applications for the real world. In this first installment, I look at the requirements for building real world applications and their implications for application architecture.
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A Dynamic Index: Reinventing the Online Help in XML
By Benjamin Guralnik – While earlier help systems may have worked because they contained less information or fewer topics, the newer help systems are turning remarkably counter-productive in spite of the fact that they incorporate much more information than their prototypes did. The main reason that
The Great Migration – Why companies are moving to Oracle and how they’re doing it.
By Michael Miley – United Airlines, Raytheon, and Gulf Insurance Company are just a few of the companies enjoying streamlined operations, greater security, and better performance after migrating to Oracle from a variety of database systems. Here’s how they did it—and how and why your company can do
SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 4
SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 4 (SP4) addresses specific issues that were discovered in SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) 1.0 since their ship date. Because SQL Server Service Packs are cumulative, SP4 includes all fixes from previously released Service Packs, and can be applied to an or
Oracle Pushes Database Upgrade, but Users Still Leery
By MARC L. SONGINI – As Oracle Corp. prepares to roll out a database upgrade that’s due for release next month, users and analysts last week said software pricing and support issues are affecting the company’s relations with some of its database customers.
Oracle 9i ‘twice as Expensive’ To Run as SQL
By Liesbeth Evers and Lisa Kelly – Analysts are divided over a recent comparative database report which claims that Oracle 9i is twice as expensive to run as Microsoft SQL.The Walklett Group report argues that the total cost of ownership (TCO) of running SQL Server 2000 on a Unisys ES7000 bo
An Exclusive Interview with David Gugick, SQL Server Performance Expert and Software Developer
by Brad M. McGehee – David Gugick provides over 100 tips on how to boost SQL Server performance.
Scheduling jobs to run on alternate Saturdays
By Bianca Blount – To accomplish running a job on the first and third Saturday of the month you would create two job schedules.Here are the steps:
Casting the Dice with FXSL: Random Number Generation Functions in XSLT
By Dimitre Novatchev – In Dimitre's functional programming series, this article deals with generating natural random numbers using different designs in the implementation. The code of the implementation demonstrates the use of such powerful, functional programming design patterns as partial appl
Tip: Converting Word documents into Simple Docbook XML
In previous tips, Khor Soon Hin showed you how to convert Rich Text Format (RTF) files into Simple DocBook (sdocbook) XML, and how RTF files with graphics can be converted into sdocbook as well. Now, some curious readers have inquired if they can do the same for Word documents — or even display tho