By Aaron Skonnard – R oughly five years ago Microsoft introduced the Universal Data Access (UDA) architecture, which promised to simplify working with enterprise data. The UDA strategy promoted exposing data through a single suite of COM interfaces known collectively as OLE DB, the idea being that
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Persisting an ADO Recordset to XML
by Mark Wilson – When Microsoft introduced ADO 2.0, a new method was included on the Recordset object – the Save method. The Save method accepts two arguments, FileName and PersistFormat. At the time, the only PersistFormat you could use was "adPersistADTG” which was a binary format.
Nobody Asked Me, But…
by John E. Simpson – I've been writing the "XML Q&A" column for a year now. An anniversary seems a good occasion to think about the questions I wish I'd been able to answer during that time — questions no one ever asks. Let's start with an easy one.
Microsoft SOAP Toolkit Version 2.0 FAQ
This article provides in-depth answers to frequently asked development questions regarding Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0.
The DBA Dot Com Bust
The downturn in the economy has left quite a few technical people out of work. This ongoing article describes the experiences over the past two years of Steve Jones. Reader experiences are requested and the article will be updated weekly.
Coefficient™ Version 1.5 – An Update To Their Database Analysis Software For Use With Microsoft SQL Server
Version 1.5 adds right-click menu support, faster analysis capabilities, the ability to limit traces/analyses to a set of users or applications, the ability to analyze only those SQL statements that perform according to a set of user-defined criteria like reads, writes, CPU, or duration, the ability
XML-ify your stored procedures
by Jimmy Nilsson – Not all of the XML support in SQL Server 2000 is useful in real world applications in my opinion. I’m thinking of the possibility to send queries to SQL Server by HTTP and receive the answer as XML documents. The security problems with that seem to be huge in the current version.
Xalan C++, Xerces 2 updates
The Apache XML Project have released updates to the C++ version of XSLT processor Xalan, and the next generation of their Java XML parser, Xerces 2. Xalan C++ 1.2 includes the following improvements over version 1.1:
Enabling XML documents for globalization
Facilitate the process of globalizing an application by organizing translatable resources in XML documents. You can use this technique to externalize the translatable content of your documents into language-specific subdocuments, as well as to structure XML documents, along with user-specified XML e
A Path to Enlightenment
by Leigh Dodds – XML-DEV has been busy recently with a number of long running threads drawing in some interesting postings. The underlying theme has been general orientation on how best to understand and come to terms with particular technologies, ranging from Schemas to Web Services. This week the