(Raghuvir Mukherji) After giving traders and order routers a bad scare in the form of algorithmic trading, technology is now in a position to threaten equity analysts, or make their job simpler, depending on where one is in the equity analysis ‘value chain’. The advent of the internet and the use of

(Ramkumar Menon) XML is a language used to describe a class of data objects called XML documents.

(Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths) Completing this four-part series, we continue our discussion of triggers and deepen our knowledge of templates.

(Robyn Page and Phil Factor) Have you ever fancied being able to put Simple-Talk’s content into a database? We haven’t either, but we’ll do it just for practice. The objective of this workbench is to show just how easy it is to implement an RSS-based datafeed in SQL Server 2005. The purpose is to tr

(Brian Smith) As web developers we are often tasked with building online reports. For ASP.NET 2.0 web applications, the GridView control is commonly used to display report data. A common challenge in building reports is achieving the right balance between readability and information. Users want to h

(Lee Sherman) The Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) are important technologies driving development on the road to the semantic web. The former is a set of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications that provide a model for representing metadata through specific

(David Marston and Henry Zongaro) XSLT 2.0 introduces numerous new features, some of which are specifically designed to address XSLT 1.0 shortcomings. This article is an extension of the first article in the series, “Improvements in XSLT,” which presented some of the most highly desirable XSLT 2.0 f

(Rick Jelliffe) When you see a data field with text like 2007-07-05 you are probably looking at a date in ISO 8601 date format. Year, month, day: YYYY-MM-DD

(Martin Brown) The rise of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) has gone hand-in-hand with the rise of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax). JSON is useful because it enables you to easily transmit data that can be turned back into a JavaScript object, but it still requires custom scripting to deal wit

(GB Shah) There are a number of such objects in the DOM model and it is important to understand some of these in detail.