(Itech Consulting) This handbook contains basics of xml. The examples given in this handbook can be executed using Notepad, Altova’s XML Spy or EditPlus software. This handbook focuses on basic concepts of xml and targets the novice xml audiences. Also some portions tend to be for intermediate xml p

(Brian Walker) My previous article described how and why to use a surrogate key structure, as an alternative to natural data keys, to implement relationships between tables. It also provides eight stored procedures to support the architecture. This article builds on that foundation with a framew

(Jeffrey Juday) Although BizTalk 2004 is generations ahead of its predecessor in handling Web services, it still presents some limitations when you begin to invoke a Web service. For example, BizTalk does not handle Web service ArrayList return types and other complicated XML message schemes.

(Ben Ritchie) This article shows you how to configure and use XA distributed transactions with WebSphere MQ Classes for Java, and how to resolve common problems you may encounter.

(Brian Mains) Generics are a new, very powerful, addition to the 2.0 version of the .NET framework. Through a new syntax, generics add support to creating strongly-typed properties, methods, classes, fields, events, and collection classes.

(Lisa Vaas) Open source scored its latest government takeover, with MySQL AB nabbing a five-year contract with the General Services Administration that will put its open-source database at the fingertips of government customers.

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(William Pearson) In this lesson, we revisit usage-based optimization, a subject that we undertook in my article MSAS Administration and Optimization: Simple Cube Usage Analysis, in September of 2003, and MSAS Administration and Optimization: Toward More Sophisticated Analysis in October of 2003. In

(James F. Koopmann) Often times we want to get information from a different Oracle instance than the one our current application is running on. Often times the information can only be gotten by having a procedure execute on the other instance. Getting the SYSDATE of anothere machine is just one situ

(Sahil Malik) One of the biggest paradigm shifts that has occurred with the introduction of .NET 2.0 probably is the introduction of System.Transactions. I talked briefly about System.Transactions in my previous article about SQLCLR, but why should transactions be limited to databases? Don’t we need