by Edd Dumbill – In his opening keynote at XML Europe 2001 in Berlin, Tim Bray explained how XML could make the Web more interesting — specifically, the Web's user interface.<br> <br> Bray recounted that many members of the original team that created XML envisaged its application in web-enabl
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Code Centric: T-SQL Programming with Stored Procedures and Triggers
Book written by Garth Wells. If you want to learn how to write stored procedures and triggers for Microsoft SQL Server, Code Centric: T-SQL Programming with Stored Procedures and Triggers is the book for you. You'll learn "real-world" coding and how to build non-trivial applications. All
Speeding-up Content Delivery to the Client with DHTML, XML, IE – Part I
by Vincent Bedus – In today's modern web applications, there is a growing need to return larger amounts of data, and return a response back to the client quickly. Vincent Bedus shows us how we can make quick responses to the users, even with large amounts of data by creating a simple html page t
The True Nature of Web Services
By ALAIN LEFEBVRE – In the year 2000, many marketplaces did not achieve the results that had been announced. Suddenly, the enthusiasm that was buzzing around B2B has cooled. Now that we can look at the situation with a bit of hindsight, it is easy to explain why independent marketplaces (the main ch
Microsoft's XQuery Prototype
This is a prototype implementation of the W3C XML Query language XQuery as defined by the February 15, 2001 working draft. The purpose of this prototype is to give you a possibility to try the language and provide feedback. To run this prototpe, Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1 is required. For
Pervasive.SQL 2000 for DataFlex
Pervasive.SQL for DataFlex is a combination of the DataFlex Connectivity Kit for Pervasive.SQL from Data Access Corporation and Pervasive.SQL from Pervasive Software, Inc. Pervasive.SQL's "Best of Both Worlds" server technology simultaneously provides the high-performance transact
Database object naming conventions
There exist so many different naming conventions for database objects, none of them is wrong. It's more of a personal preference of the person who designed the naming convention. However, in an organization, one person (or a group) defines the database naming conventions, standardizes it and oth
DataReturn Turns Up Buzz Meter
Web hoster DataReturn will announce a new high-reliability service with Microsoft this week, amid hoopla interpreted by many as a way to raise DataReturn's profile, possibly leading to a partnership or an acquisition.<br><br> The Texas Web hoster is adding services based on Microsoft software a
A general-purpose Java SOAP client
By Bob DuCharme – This article describes a simple, general purpose SOAP client in Java that uses no specialized SOAP libraries. Instead of creating the SOAP request XML document for you under the hood, this client lets you create your own request with any XML editor (or text editor). Instead of mere