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As budgets are tightened and staff downsized, IT departments have to find new ways of leveraging XML's tagging schema to access data from disparate sources. Screen scraping, the traditional method, ...

Garbage in, garbage out as they say. However, poor quality data is no joke, today it costs the U.S. economy trillions. There is an old saying that dates back to the early days of computing that has ...

XML refers to Extensible Markup Language, which is a language similar to HTML. If you have an XML document, you may be wondering how to open it. Although you can open an XML file in Notepad, the ...

It is important to decide exactly what information a database needs to store, because it is tempting to keep more data than will be needed. Just remember: The more data you store, the more data that ...

Behind the scenes: A day in the life of a database administrator Your email has been sent Here's a look at how one database administrator collaborates with his coworkers, helping analyze data, ...

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