Recent Articles
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Microsoft: Opportunities Abound for Office Partners
Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp.’s group vice president of productivity and business services highlight the opportunities the Office System family of products represents to Microsoft’s partners at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. Raikes stressed that there is a great number of opportunities available to the several thousand attendees, especially now that Office is no…
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Quiz: Can XQuery Help Your Clients?
1. The company has a lot of data stored in the XML format. TRUE FALSE 1. 2. 2. They currently store XML data in relational databases. TRUE FALSE 1. 2. 3. They have business or compliance requirements that require them to produce, on demand, documents that rely on many types of data. TRUE FALSE 1.…
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Primer: XQuery 1.0
What is it? A language that allows users to search for and extract information from databases as well as documents in which content is identified by tags based on the Internet’s eXtensible Markup Language (XML). What does it do? XQuery makes it possible to pull data from multiple sources and merge it on screen at…
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Quantum Revs Library Capacity
Quantum Corp.’s newest tape library offers high-availability features, and it will soon be offered in a bundle with disk backup and a Fibre Channel switch, officials said. The Mako PX720 holds 20 drives, can mix up to 732 Linear Tape-Open cartridges or 648 Super Digital Linear Tape cartridges and will ship by year’s end, said…
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Windows XP Changes Filename Sorting
Microsoft changed the filename sort algorithm in Windows XP, making it different from all previous versions. The only reference I’ve found is the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q318872 that addresses an incorrect sort order in Windows XP. This article in turn refers to a new Windows API function called StrCmpLogicalW, which implements the new sort…