The organizers of PASS 2001 North America are deeply saddened by the despicable acts of terrorism that took place on September 11, 2001. In light of this extraordinary situation along with the emotional, personal safety and logistical ramifications that are associated with it, PASS feels it is appro
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Simplified SOAP Development with SOAP::Lite – Part I
As of September 2001, there are around seventy (70) toolkits available from various sources including Microsoft, Apache, Cape Clear, and so on, to aid develop SOAP client and/or server applications. The question is which one should you use? The answer is – it depends! If you are used to Microsoft t
Meaning Definition Language
The problem is XML interoperability – the proliferation of XML languages with overlapping meanings but different structures, and the need to inter-operate between them.If you develop applications for several XML languages, you need to know their structures – DTDs or schemas – and how those s
W3C Schema test collection available
Henry Thompson has announced the first public release of the W3C XML Schema Test Collection, enabled substantially by a donation of tests from Microsoft.
HOSTPORTAL RELEASES ITS LATEST VERSION OF MAIL MACHINE
HostPortal, a global leader in Web-based applications and hosting services, unveils its new version of its newsletter manager, Mail Machine 2.2. Running on a Windows NT or Windows 2000 Server, Mail Machine can be accessed from any major Internet browser from anywhere. This extremely powerful applica
SQL Server Security Best Practices
by Vyas Kondreddi – This article discusses the security model of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, along with security best practices to help you secure your data. Special thanks to my friend Divya Kalra for her valuable input and content review. Security is a major concern for the modern ag
SQL Server Profiler and Web Apps
By Ken Spencer – Many people overlook SQL Server Profiler in SQL Server 2000 and 7.0 as a Web development tool. Because one of Profiler’s functions is to monitor and report the various performance levels of your SQL Server database, you can use it to look at how your Web applications interact with t
Dynamic Web Sites with XML, XSLT and JSP
In this article we introduce a method that eases the burden of providing dynamic data and integrating it in your Web site.
DTDs and XML documents from SQL queries
This column discusses the public-domain sql2dtd and sql2xml utilities that allow RDBMS-independent generation of portable XML result sets. SQL queries that extract data from relational databases can provide very practical ad hoc document-type information for the representation of query results in XM
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification
This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.