Book by Neil Pike – This book will help the professional programmer get up to speed on a key Microsoft technology. This book consists of nearly 500 common and not-so-common questions and problems that users of all versions of SQL Server are likely to come across. The solutions to these problems are
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Securing Web Services using the JavaTM Platform and XML
By Andrew Brown, Loren Hart, and Monica Pawlan – To enable smooth, reliable, secure, and standardized cooperation and communication, more and more companies are taking advantage of Web services. Initiatives like the Universal Discovery, Description, and Integration (UDDI) specification define ways t
W3C XML Schema Made Simple
by Kohsuke Kawaguchi – Several similar documents on XML Schema are already available. I discovered, however, that they're written by brilliant people who always drive things to the limit. They simply can't stop inventing cool tricks that even working group members can't imagine, and XML
Apache SOAP 2.2 released
Apache SOAP has released version 2.2 of their SOAP implementation, with bug fixes and enhanced documentation and samples. The list of changes includes many bug fixes and cleanup, as well as work done on the samples and documentation:
SQL Data Compare Keeps Data in Different Databases Synchronized
by Brad M. McGehee – If you have been keeping up with the new articles and reviews on my website, you might have run across a review I recently wrote called, How SQL Compare Makes You a More Productive DBA. This was a product review of Red-Gate Software’s SQL Compare software, which is used to compa
Veritas NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
Restores SQL Server using point-and-click maneuvers. The complete history of database and transaction log dumps is captured as a series of icons. Gives DBA the option of immediately launching the restore to recover SQL Server to a specific point in time or to save the parameters for later execution.
OASIS announces RELAX, TREX to form RELAX NG
OASIS announced the renaming of the TREX technical committee to RELAX NG, reflecting "their decision to integrate TREX and RELAX in order to collaborate on a unified lightweight specification for validating XML-based languages."
XHTML will ease writing of apps for all types of devices
Sometimes Cindy Groner must feel like she's swimming in circles in a sea of acronyms. As director of mobile traveler services at Sabre Inc., Groner oversees a team of wireless developers who, in the process of coming up with new wireless services for Sabre's customers, must creat
Using the W3C XSLT Specification
by Bob DuCharme – The W3C's XSLT Recommendation (available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt) is a specification describing the XSLT language and the responsibilities of XSLT processors. If you're new to XSLT, the Recommendation can be difficult to read, especially if you're not familiar with
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming By Example
Book by Fernando G. Guerrero & Carlos Eduardo Rojas – When I first started learning Transact-SQL, there were few books to choose from. Today, you have many choices, including this new book from Que. Like most books that cover Transact-SQL, this book is introductory in nature and is designed for read