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What Are XForms?
by Micah Dubinko – Think about how many times a day you use forms, electronic or otherwise. On the Web, forms have truly become commonplace for search engines, polls, surveys, electronic commerce, and even on-line applications. Nearly all user interaction on the Web is through forms of some sort. Th
Microsoft SQL Server & Solid State Accelerators
by Jeff Garbus – Solid State Accelerators make it possible for you to give your peripheral storage the speed of memory. Essentially, a Solid State Accelerator is Solid State memory technology with an attitude, which emulates a conventional disk drive or array. It includes a built-in UPS backup syste
How to Configure SQL Mail
This article describes how to properly configure your mail client so that it works with SQL Mail. The article also describes some common pitfalls that you might encounter when you set up SQL Mail to work with Exchange or Internet mail servers. SQL Mail establishes a simple Mail Application Pr
Managing Security
A database must have a solid security system to control which activities can be performed and which information can be viewed and modified. A solid security system ensures the protection of data, regardless of how users gain access to the database. This section describes the security tools bu
Interoperability Testing
Scott Seely tests the promise of interoperability by comparing the process of writing clients for a Web Service with three popular non-Microsoft toolkits: Apache, SOAP::Lite, and SOAPy.
Choosing schemas
by Mark Wilson – Originally, SGML was the flavour of the month. SGML documents were structured using DTDs. With the advent of XML, the DTD had some good features and some bad features. Before we discuss the various types of schemas, let's take a look at the pros and cons of DTD and schemas.
Java and XML, 2nd Edition: Chapter 12: SOAP
by Brett McLaughlin – This excerpt is Chapter 12 from Java & XML, 2nd Edition , to be published in September 2001 by O'Reilly.SOAP is the Simple Object Access Protocol. If you haven't heard of it by now, you've probably been living under a rock somewhere. It's become the newe
Time Is Running Out to Sign Up for the SA Program
By Brian Moran – In my July 19 commentary, I discussed Microsoft’s Software Assurance (SA) program and how it might impact your ability to upgrade SQL Server (see the URL below). Because the October 1 transition date to SA is looming and Microsoft has made a few changes to the program since I origin
How can I create a plain-text flat file from SQL Server as input to another application?
One of the purposes of Extensible Markup Language (XML) is to solve challenges like this, but until all applications become XML-enabled, consider using our faithful standby, the bulk copy program (bcp) utility. This utility can do more than just dump a table; bcp also can take its input from a view