If Oracle's technical team were half as effective as its marketing team, Microsoft and SQL Server might really be in trouble. But to Microsoft's advantage, Oracle's recent product announcements and its latest million-dollar challenge show that the Oracle marketing department's achiev
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SQL Server 2000 Log Shipping
Thursday, February 15, 2001: 10:00 A.M. Pacific time (Greenwich mean time – 8 hours) In this session, we will discuss the new SQL Server Log Shipping feature and the enhancement made to this newly automated feature. We will talk about why it is robust and will also provide some suggestions abou
SQL Server 2000 for VB Developers
Read Chapter 15: SQL Server and XML, from PerfectXML.com.
What is RDF?
RDF stands for Resource Description Framework. RDF is built for the Web, but let's leave the Web behind for now and think about how we find things in the real world.
XML Q&A
By Rich Rollman, SQL Server Magazine During the past two months, readers' questions have centered on using ADO and XML. This month, let's explore a different area of SQL Server 2000—the ability to store, index, and retrieve XML.
Error handling in long-running batch jobs
From SQL Team.com Andy Pope, posed a question on handling errors in long running batch jobs. Basically Andy wanted a way to store job log entries in a SQL Server log table that didn't get rolled back if the enclosing transaction failed. I really wasn't much help giving him an answer so
Overlooked Command-Line Utilities
SQL Server ships with an array of powerful graphical management tools, but it also features many lesser-known command-line utilities that let you use Windows NT shell scripts or VBScript to manage SQL Server. Here are my picks for the seven most overlooked SQL Server command-line utilities, all of w
MSXML with Internet Explorer 4.0
Microsoft certainly did a good job with version 3.0 of their XML Parser (MSXML 3.0), with complete implementation of XSLT & XPath W3C specifications, improved SAX2, DOM and namespace support, Server-safe HTTP access, quite a few bug fixes and performance improvements. But what if the 'minimum re
The XML Technologies' Cornerstone Event
The XML World series will achieve a new level of success for XML events in terms of media impact and technical relevance. XML World will be among the most energetic and interesting events in the domain of structured markup languages. Whether you are new to XML or an expert of attempting very ambitio
Become an archiving ace
Could you use an archiving utility that can handle multiple opened archives all at the same time in a Windows Explorer-like interface? Sure you could. BitZipper has a feature called BitZipper Explorer. Even though it does things beyond the ordinary, you'll feel right at home using it.