Microsoft' s Reinaldo Kibel, a SQL Server support engineer, will be hosting a Support WebCast about SQL Server 2000's log-shipping functionality February 15 at 10 A.M. (Pacific time). The WebCast will cover SQL Server 2000 enhancements to this...
The paradox-of-simplicity problem with SQL Server that I've discussed the past couple of weeks has sparked a number of interesting reader debates. One debate revolves around the value—and danger—of adding wizards to SQL Server to simplify complex...
In last week's column, I concluded my XML Path Language (XPath) discussion by suggesting that XPath is the first significant step toward a standard and powerful way to navigate through XML forests of nodes and attributes. In this week's column, I...
One of XML's design goals is to separate content from presentation. XML focuses on the content rather than the way the content is presented to a user. In this week's column, I look at what this aspect of XML means to a forms designer...
This week, I share some speculations and observations about Exchange Server's future (and therefore, our future) and some general observations about Microsoft .NET...
Microsoft has posted two new Knowledge Base articles that clarify how the ODBC driver for SQL Server 2000 and 7.0 returns messages from certain commands and how to create a SQL Server 2000 Blackbox trace. The article "INF: PRINT, RAISERROR, DBCC...
Think of XML Path Language (XPath) as a general-purpose query language for addressing, sorting, and filtering both the elements and the text of an XML document. Version 3.0 of Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) supports XPath through both the Extensible...
Recently, I've spent a lot of time with the Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML). In this column, I share some of my observations about it. Version 3.0 has been stable and reliable, and Microsoft has updated it to be compatible with the latest World Wide...