(Robert Jacques) IBM has unveiled an integrated data warehouse offering for Linux that combines software, server and storage technologies.
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Oracle Updates Enterprise Manager 10g’s ALM
(Scott Ferguson) Oracle announced that it’s tweaking Enterprise Manager 10g’s application lifecycle management so as to allow IT professionals to monitor the entire database and pinpoint specific changes in the database environment, approve changes, and take “snapshots” of the environment.
Shared Server Issues in Oracle 9i
(Brian Keating) The Oracle shared server architecture provides a mechanism for a relatively large number of user connections to be established to a database with a relatively small amount of physical memory required. However, there are a number of potential issues with the shared server architecture
Streaming component combinators
(Mario Blaževiæ) Streaming, in the context of this paper, means processing data as it is being delivered. There are two reasons why streaming is important for markup processing. One is that streaming applications do not need to load their whole input into main memory at once, and hence achieve bette
XForms basics
(Nicholas Chase) XForms provides a host of new capabilities for Web authors and developers who want to create Web forms that include rich interactive experiences while still maintaining many of the familiar aspects of creating forms in HTML. This article explains the basics of creating an XForms for
Leverage MySQL skills to learn DB2 Express, Part 4: DB2 versus MySQL data movement
(Allan Tham) If you’re a DBA with responsibilities across both MySQL and IBM DB2 Express-C, you need to understand how the capabilities of these two database servers compare. This article is the fourth in a series of articles designed to assist DBAs coming from a MySQL background learn how to admini
Overloading and Object-Oriented Programming with PHP 5
(George Schlossnagle) Let’s bring together some of the techniques developed so far in this chapter and use overloading to provide a more OO-style interface to the result set. Having all the results in a single object may be a familiar paradigm to programmers who are used to using Java’s JDBC databas
Best Practice: Enforcing password complexity
(Ed Tittel) Those who’ve worked in the Windows environment for any length of time know that password complexity requirements first appeared in updates to Windows NT and have been part and parcel of Windows Servers versions ever since. They also know that it’s always been a little trickier than it sh
ASP.NET Tip: Creating a Composite Web Control
(Eric Smith) Adding user controls to a web application is a fairly easy thing to do. You essentially create a portion of a web page, add your HTML, and then use the control within your application. Although easy to create, user controls are harder to share between projects. As an alternative to user
SQL Server Backup file in standard Zip format
(Joshy George) This is SQL Server Backup and restore tool, the system will store the backup files in standard Zip format, the user-friendly screen let you backup and restore SQL Server database to local harddisk or remote network driver easily and quickly.The program can restore database easily.