By Asif Habibullah and Jimmy Xu – Distributed database apps causing you headaches? Learn how, by incorporating servlets and a SQL server, you can save yourself the hassle.
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Aggregate Functions in SQL
Fortunately, SQL provides aggregate functions to assist with the summarization of large volumes of data. In this three-segment article, we'll look at functions that allow us to add and average data, count records meeting specific criteria and find the largest and smallest values in a table.
XML versus EDI
By Mike Hogan – I often see articles talking about XML versus EDI. Many companies say that they are using, or planning to use XML because it is faster or cheaper, but they never really explain why this is. So I thought that I would give a quick rundown on the issues.
C++ Xml
by Fabio Arjona Arciniegas, Fabio Arsiniegas – C++ XML treats, from a C++ exclusive point, all major standards, toolkits, and types of applications dealing with XML as a format for representing and exchanging data, as well as behavior. C++ explains the implementation of applications and reusable fra
Software AG and Fatdog release XQuery implementations
Announcing the 1.0 release of XML Query Engine, a Java-based search component for small to medium-sized collections of XML document, Howard Katz of Fatdog noted also that "early experimental support" for XQuery is included. XML Query Engine currently uses XQL as its query language; the engin
Updating records in the Database with Java Servlets
This article is next in the series of articles about selecting, inserting, updating and deleting records from the database using JDBC. In this article we will learn how to update records in the database. If you have followed my earlier article about 'Inserting records in the Database' then t
XML Processing with Python
by Sean McGrath – Provides all the information, explanations, working examples, and software packages (on the accompanying CD-ROM) needed to start writing XML-processing applications in Python quickly. CD-ROM also includes several additional resources.
] EIA XML Standard for Configuration Management Data Exchange and Interoperability.
A communiqué from Russell F. Moody of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) reports on the recent release of the EIA Standard 836 for public review and comment. Developed by member organizations of the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA), the EIA-836
Run XSLT transforms from Emacs
Ovidiu Predescu has announced the release of xslt-process 2.0, a minor mode for GNU Emacs/XEmacs that adds XSLT processing and debugging capabilities to the popular kitchen-sink editor.
Documenting application performance
Performance. It's on everyone's mind. Databases get larger, support more users, serve up greater volumes of data, and are central to the competitiveness of every company. With databases being so important, it would be nice if all parties involved – DBAs, developers, and 3rd party vendors