Enterprise application provider Made2Manage Systems Inc. announced at National Manufacturing Week the upcoming release of its new version 4.0 software product. Called the Enterprise Edition, Made2Manage 4.0 will feature the company's flagship Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) product. The new s
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XML for Absolute Beginner – A Short Tutorial
Welcome to the wonderful world of Extensible Markup Language (XML). This short article is an effort to explain what XML is, what are it's benefits, and briefly describe some of standards evolving around it.
XSLT experts petition against script element
A group of respected XSLT experts have created a petition against the xsl:script element, recently added to the XSLT 1.1 Working Draft. The element is considered harmful to the portability of XSLT sheets, and contradictory to the statement that "XSLT is not intended as a completely ge
SQL Server 2000 Wins eWEEK eXcellence Award
SQL Server 2000 has claimed eWEEK's 2001 eXcellence Award for best enterprise systems development tool.
Identity and Primary Keys – Part I
If you are an Access user, or migrated from Access to SQL Server, you may think that a primary key and an Identity/Autonumber column are the same thing. Well, they’re not, and there are some very good reasons NOT to use an Identity column for the primary key on your tables.
Online Training for XML
The Web is used for many purposes these days, and educational training is no exception. Many sites provide online courses that require nothing but a Web browser and an Internet connection. Not surprisingly technical training is at the top of the list, since the targeted audience is mostly already We
Updates for Perl and Pocket PC SOAP libraries
Paul Kulchenko has released version 0.47 of the Perl SOAP stack SOAP::Lite, and Simon Fell has updated pocketSOAP, the Windows and PDA device SOAP stack.
Does XML Query Reinvent the Wheel?
by Leigh Dodds at XML.com Debates on the XML-DEV and XSL mailing lists over the last two weeks concern the futures of XSLT, XPath, and, the latest addition to the W3C XML toolkit, XML Query. There are no signs of these debates ending this week. Discussion on XML-DEV about the design of XML Quer
SQL Server crosstab utility
Welcome to RAC, the R(eplacement) for the A(ccess) C(rosstab) query, written exclusively for MS Server 7 and S2k. Use RAC to produce basic crosstab tables. Take advantage of the many computational and report type features to create more elaborate tables. Use RAC to perform various data manipulations