Leveraging Skilled SQL Developers When Building Client/Server Applications This white paper is an excerpt from Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server, 5th Edition by William R. Vaughn (MS Press); used with permission by the author. To order the complete book, contact Microsoft Pr
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Microsoft Opens Tech Center to Nurture .Net
Microsoft has opened a technology center here to draw corporate customers for shared problem-solving and to promote its .Net strategy, a Microsoft mission described as "even riskier than Windows" by Bill Gates, chair and chief software architect. In his keynote presentation, Gates rep
XForms Requirements
Forms were introduced into HTML in 1993. Since then they have gone on to become a critical part of the Web. The existing mechanisms in HTML for forms are now outdated, and W3C has started work on developing an effective replacement. This document outlines the requirements for "XForms", W3C&#
XSLT Standard Library Version 0.1 Released
Steve Ball (Zveno) has posted an announcement for the first release of an 'XSLT Standard Library' of commonly-used XSLT templates created through the corresponding SourceForge project. This initial release of the XSLT Standard Library is "to promote the library, establish the engineering
Log Shipping with SQL Server 7.0
By Ron Talmage – Log shipping is a robust yet low-tech, low-cost way to achieve high availability and disaster protection in your SQL Server environment. Log shipping automatically ships—copies and restores—a production server's transaction logs to a standby server, which stands ready to take th
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Distributed Queries: OLE DB Connectivity
This document describes how the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 query processor interacts with an OLE DB provider to enable distributed and heterogeneous queries. It is intended primarily for OLE DB provider developers, and assumes a solid understanding of the OLE DB specification.
DTDs, Industry Markup Languages, XSLT and Special Characters
by John E. Simpson, XML.com – Question and answer column to solve all your tricky problems with XML.
XML and Java on the Menu
by Dan Wahlin – Given all of the attention that XML has been receiving in the media lately, you're probably keenly aware of how useful XML is for marking up data that can be exchanged between distributed systems. While this capability carries with it an enormous amount of power and flexibility,
Transforming XML into SVG
By Doug Tidwell – The first section of our tutorial showed you how to transform XML documents into HTML. We used a variety of XML source documents (technical manuals, spreadsheet data, a business letter, etc.) and converted them into HTML. Along the way, we demonstrated the various things you can do
DTS Grows Up
By Brian Knight – Since its introduction in SQL Server 7.0, Data Transformation Services (DTS) has helped many SQL Server professionals migrate data from OLE DB-compliant data sources to any compliant destination. But in SQL Server 2000, DTS has really grown up.