(Mike Champion) We’re nearly code complete on the next version of Visual Studio, and will soon be releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) so that you can take a look, work on prototypes, and think about how the new features might fit into your development plans. This is the first Orcas CTP th
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Oracle – LOG FILE SWITCH COMPLETION
(James F. Koopmann) Definition – The amount of time users and applications must wait for a log switch to complete.
SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard
(Tibor Karaszi) The SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard (DPW) is an interesting new tool. It was designed for ease working with SQL Server when you have someone hosting your web-site and you want to publish your database. Sure, you can do backup and restore, but that would involve FTP and you also
Oracle Data Integrator aims for ‘pervasive BI’
(Mark Brunelli) Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), the first major upgrade of Sunopsis Inc. software since Oracle purchased the Limonest, France-based data integration vendor last year. (R)
Mashups put a new face on the Web
(Tony Patton) One of the more popular trends to fall under the Web 2.0 umbrella is the creation of Web applications called mashups. Mashups draw upon existing Web applications or data sources and combine these resources to create a new application. I examine the technologies behind mashups, the arch
Access Sharepoint Portal Server using Web Services in .NET
(Mahesh Chand) Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 (WSS) exposes its functionality using a Web Service interface, which has sixteen Web services and each of these services exposes different functionality such as security groups and users, user permissions, documents and imaging, lists, alerts, meetings, s
How to call a WS-Security secured web service from Oracle BPEL
(Andre Crone) I have been investigating Oracle’s Web Service Manager recently. WSM is shipped with the new SOA Suite. The WSM is a service gateway. Existing services can be placed behind the gateway. Security and authentication of the services will be done by the service gateway. WSM also provides a
Error message when you use XML functionalities against an instance of SQL Server 2000 after you upgrade an instance of SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005: ‘Failed to load msxmlsql.dll’
Consider the following scenario. A computer is running multiple instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2000. You update one of the instances to Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You use XML functionalities against one of the instances of SQL Server 2000. In this scenario, you receive an error message that resem
Considering WebSphere on System z for your SOA
(Tom Parette) Many organizations which are moving to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) have a significant legacy infrastructure running on IBM’s System z. Several options exist for service enablement of these applications. This article describes why you might want to consider System z as the fou
MySQL’s FEDERATED storage engine: Part 1
(Xaprb) MySQL’s FEDERATED storage engine is a fascinating example of the flexibility gained by abstracting the storage engine layer away from the rest of the server. FEDERATED tables allow you to access a table on another server as though it exists on the local server. However, the manual doesn’t sa