In revamping the way SQL Server implements security in the 7.0 release, Microsoft created a flexible and powerful method for managing users' access both to the SQL Server system and to the databases. The changes also created confusion as administrators tried to upgrade from SQL Server 6.5 securi
Other News
Devphiles and Konsultmarknaden in collaboration
Devphiles, Sweden's leading company in the field of e-learning for developers and Konsultmarknaden have entered into a collaboration agreement. The agreement implies that Devphiles will be able to reach a larger proportion of Sweden's developers and therefore give the company a competitive e
SQL Server 2000: New Features Provide Unmatched Ease of Use and Scalability
SQL Server 2000 includes many new features that extend its capabilities as a high performance relational database system with a rich development environment. This article presents an overview of new product features including AWE support, new data types, new user-defined and built-in functions as we
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): An Executive Summary
The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format is a new XML grammar for defining vector-based 2D graphics for the Web and other applications. This article provides a brief introduction to SVG, followed by four examples of SVG graphics, and links to two code samples.
XML Global Announces a Technology Development Alliance with Aztec Software Inc.
XML Global Technologies, Inc. (www.xmlglobal.com), developers of the world’s premier XML-based search and transformation e-business software products, today announced it has signed a strategic software development alliance with Aztec Software Inc. (www.aztecsoft.com) , an e-engineering solutions com
The Home Shopping Network Migrates to SQL Server 2000
The Home Shopping Network (HSN) recently migrated from Oracle running on Sun Solaris to SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server to reduce costs, increase performance, and decrease time to market for new functionality. SQL Server 2000’s Data Transformation Services (DTS) lets HSN coor
Devphiles
Devphiles Education-We are on the cutting edge in such areas as Active Server Pages, XML, DHTML, SQL, Java and Visual Basic. Our experts are holding the classes themselves. We conduct tests, and tailor individual trainingprograms. Basic training is available online while the more advanced classes ar
Expanding Hierarchies
Microsoft has expanded the information about expanding hierarchies in SQL Server Books Online (BOL) since SQL Server 6.x. But the BOL solution merely displays the output; you can’t join the results with other views, tables, or results. My T-SQL coding solution fills this gap. Also, the solution I pr
Using Formatting Objects with the Slides DTD
This article presents the features of Formatting Objects (FO) as they are applied when transforming slide XML files (validated using the Slides DTD) to FO. The features correspond to the features supported by the current version of the Apache FO-to-PDF project (FOP). With the XSLT stylesheet applied
How to Encode XML Data
This article explains how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM. A lot of people have been asking me questions lately about how to make their XML files transfer data properly between different platforms. They create an XML document, type in data, stick a few