Each chapter has a 2 minute drill which some people may find useful for a last chance review before sitting the exam. Each chapter also has multiple choice questions to test your understanding of the chapter, as found in most study guides.
Other News
“Best of Both Worlds” – Pervasive.SQL 2000i for DataFlex® Released!
Pervasive.SQL for DataFlex is a combination of the DataFlex Connectivity Kit for Pervasive.SQL from Data Access Worldwide and Pervasive.SQL from Pervasive Software.
Xparse-J Update 1.1
Xparse-J grew out of the need for the smallest possible XML parser. While the parser works great when parsing, accessing the parsed data afterwards was not easy. This has been improved.
RDF Applications with Prolog
RDF Applications with Prolog by Bijan Parsia – In the first article in this series, I explained some of the semantics of RDF via Prolog (and vice versa). In this article, I'll explore some of the nitty-gritty of working with RDF in Prolog using the SWI-Prolog system.
Picture This: Web Interfaces Go Interactive
by Kurt Cagle – Static bitmaps and primitive animation have limited the development of truly interactive Web graphics. Now there's SVG, a standalone language that lets you use XSLT to generate dynamic graphical user interfaces from XML data sources.
Building the Billion Dollar Database: Microsoft SQL Server Climbs to New Heights
How about this: News that your product has reached $1 billion in annual sales? Now that's a milestone worth celebrating. Ask Steve Murchie he's Microsoft's group product manager for SQL Server Marketing, and Microsoft SQL Server has joined the ranks of products that rake in more than $1
Stored Procedures
The use of stored procedures is the one area where the Command object comes into its own. A stored procedure (or stored query as it’s sometimes called) is a predefined SQL query stored on the database. So why should we create and use a stored procedure instead of just creating a SQL string on the fl
SQL Server 7.0 Undocumented Stored Procedures
by Alexander Chigrik – In this article, I want to tell you about some useful undocumented stored procedures shipped with SQL Server 7.0.
Boosts for ebXML from Sun and OAGI
The ebXML project received a boost recently as Sun released a J2EE-based implementation of the ebXML Registry/Repository, and the Open Applications Group Inc. announced the incorporation of ebXML into their canon of business transaction standards.
<taglines/>:The Web's Grand Planners
Edd Dumbill examines the W3C's new architectural watchdog, the TAG, and whether it will have much influence over the development of XML.