What skills do you need to be a DBA? Lots of different ones, but people often forget there are non-technical skills that matter. This article by David Poole examines some of the softer skills that can help your career.
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XML a cornerstone of new graphics model
By: Paul Festa – After more than a year of revisions, the World Wide Web Consortium on Wednesday recommended specifications for graphics and animation that backers say could give popular Web technologies a run for their money. The W3C recommended SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), advancing it f
DocBook tool set
Command Prompt have announced DocBook Pro, a collection of tools for processing SGML and XML DocBook documents. DocBook Pro comes in two flavors, Basic and Deluxe. The Basic edition, $69.95 per seat, includes the following tools:
Chapter 5: XSLT Processing with Java
by Eric M. Burke – This excerpt is Chapter 5 from Java and XSLT, to be published in September 2001 by O'Reilly.Since many of the XSLT processors are written in Java, they can be directly invoked from a Java application or servlet. Embedding the processor into a Java application is genera
HOW TO: Prebuild a SQL Server CE Database
If you have a large quantity of data in your back-end Microsoft SQL Server database, it can be resource-intensive to have every Microsoft Windows CE device download all of the data by using a replication synchronization process. You can “prebuild” a Microsoft SQL Server CE copy of the database, and
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Named Best Overall Database
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 was named the overall winner in the database software category in this year’s VARBusiness Annual Report Card (ARC). The VARBusiness ARC is the most significant annual benchmark of the industry’s solution provider and vendor relationship. It measures the overall lev
Understanding SAX
By Nicholas Chase – This tutorial examines the use of the Simple API for XML version 2.0, or SAX 2.0. It is aimed at developers who have an understanding of XML and wish to learn this lightweight, event-based API for working with XML data. It assumes that you are familiar with concepts such as well-
XSL Basics (part 2)
By icarus – In the concluding part of this article, I will be examining a bunch of other XSLT constructs, all designed to make your XSLT experience that much more enjoyable. Some of these constructs are extremely simple and logical; others offer capabilities typically found only in programming langu
Dividing Factors
by Leigh Dodds – Last week the XML-Deviant noted that the recent squabbles concerning typing, XML, and W3C XML Schemas hinted at increasing divides in the XML community. There are further signs this week, including many comments about accepting the diversity of XML applications, differing requiremen
Calling Java Stored Procedures from Triggers
Tip from Jeffrey Tarnok and Sai Casulas – Triggers are often employed to handle pre and post-data manipulation language (DML) processing and can be used to facilitate complex constraint requirements. Oracle supports the use of Java in the database as a non-proprietary, powerful programming language.