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Generate Dynamic SQL Statements
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Programming Microsoft® Access Version 2002
Book by Rick Dobson – Learn how to develop multiuser databases—and extend your solutions to SQL Server™ and the Web—with code and instruction from an Access 2002 expert. Whether you’re extending an existing database or developing a sophisticated custom solution, this detailed developer’s guid
IBM touts Web services, portal plans
By Paul Krill – IBM Corp. at its Solutions Conference here hailed Web services as a way to deploy new XML-based applications on the Web and integrate legacy applications. The company also detailed a merged portal offering featuring Lotus K-Station and IBM's WebSphere Portal Server.
Xslt Quickly
Book by Bob Ducharme – Geared toward new users of XSLT, this guide is a basic tutorial of the concepts and documentation manipulation techniques necessary for the most common XSLT tasks. Featuring an XSLT cookbook, which provides task-oriented recipes for tackling issues such as converting elements
Marquée XML-RPC
This is an implementation of the XML-RPC specification, for Java(TM). Credit should go to Hannes Wallnoefer who maintains another XML-RPC library for Java(TM) from which several ideas have been borrowed when implementing this software. Download the current version (1.1 from June 04, 2001) whi
OmniAudit 1.0 Beta Released
OmniAudit allows you to automatically and transparently track changes to any column of any table in your Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 databases. Not only capture before and after values for each changed column, but also identify the user making the change, the date and time th
Microsoft tightens reins on software security
By Erich Luening and David Becker – The Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker, or Hfnetchk tool, made available on Wednesday, allows business users of the company's software to assess the status of security patches for the Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems, as well as fixes f
Ipnet Passes Additional As2 Internet Security Standard Test; Compliance Ensures Secure Communication of XML And EDI Data
IPNet Solutions Inc. announced IPNet eBizness(TM) Transact 3.4 has successfully completed a second conformance validation test for the AS2 security standard. This new draft standard allows vendor applications to communicate not only EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) but also XML (Extensible M
How to Access Java Code from XSLT
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