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As soon as Beta 1 of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) rolled out, many programmers asked themselves, "Is COM dead?" Although that's a very plausible question because many companies have millions of dollars invested in applications that use...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to SQL Server Magazine’s monthly, Web-only series of SQL Server tips brought to you by the Microsoft SQL Server Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). Microsoft introduced the MVP program in the 1990s to recognize members of...
Microsoft's SQL Server development team has announced a new quality-assurance program that gets you—its customers—involved in improving the database system. You can help Microsoft, improve your application, and win cool prizes—just by...
The June puzzle doesn’t relate to calculated cells but is a common problem for companies that gather retail market data. These organizations need to show the leaders, typically for brands, and to show that information relative to the rest of the...
We care, we listen, and we want to serve you better! This week, I want to gather information about you and your SQL Server deployments so we can tailor the contents of SQL Server Magazine UPDATE to meet your needs as effectively as possible. I...
XML plays a key role in the .NET Framework because XML is widely used and tightly integrated with ADO.NET and because many classes that you can use to read, write, and navigate in XML documents support XML as a file format. The .NET Framework...
You've probably heard of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Now, we also have XML-based messaging and envelopes. The MessageML Forum, an industry standards body, is working on MessageML, an open standard for sending XML messages. Somewhere...
T-SQL includes ReadText(), WriteText(), and UpdateText() functions that you can use to work with the data that text, ntext, and image columns contain. However, unlike the much more powerful ADO Stream functions, these T-SQL functions are limited...