By Scott Mauvais – Building highly available applications requires three ingredients: technology, people, and process. Let's review what I mean by these terms.
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Analyze Disk Utilization
By Russ Whitney – Most users who know about analysis applications recognize the power and value of analysis but don't realize the breadth of situations to which analysis applications are applicable. Probably 80 percent of OLAP product demonstrations use sales data. The sample database that SQL S
SynchML
SyncML is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) protocol under development as an open standard for the universal synchronization of data between devices, one of the most important building blocks in the development of third generation (3G)wireless. The SyncML Initiative was founded in February of 2000
XML World 2001
Unquestionably the best XML event of the year 2000, XML World is coming to San Francisco for 2001. The one event that showcases all aspects of XML – and that gives a due emphasis to the business of XML – will be opening its doors at the San Francisco Marriott for the 17th through 20th of September,
The Naming of Parts
by John E. Simpson – I'm thinking, for example, of a rule like "an element name must begin with a letter (alphabet) and can be followed by alphanumeric characters." Are any special characters (like -, _, #, @, etc.) allowed in the name? Where can I find the specification that defines the
SQL Server 2000 Undocumented Stored Procedures
by Alexander Chigrik – In this article, I want to tell you about some useful undocumented stored procedures shipped with SQL Server 2000.
XBRL
XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language), formerly code named XFRML, is a freely available electronic language for financial reporting. It is an XML-based framework that provides the financial community a standards-based method to prepare, publish in a variety of formats, reliably extract and a
The XML Cover Pages: Check or Validate XML
The "Check or Validate XML" section of the XML Cover Pages is a listing of several online XML checkers that will test a submitted online page in one of three ways: a well-formedness check, a syntax check, or a validation check. Links to additional testing and validation resources are also in
DOM tools update
DOM fans will be happy to see a new release of the Java based dom4j, and domc an implementation of DOM Core Level 1 in ANSI C.
Veritas to help Microsoft secure SQL Server
Data storage provider Veritas last week announced a joint marketing and technical initiative with Microsoft to deliver tiered data protection solutions to users of Microsoft's SQL Server relational database. Veritas and Microsoft will jointly develop storage management, migration and