(Paul Krill) Oracle within two weeks plans to offer a developer’s preview of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, which features a single-install procedure for all components.
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Solr: Indexing XML with Lucene and REST
(Bertrand Delacretaz) Solr (pronounced “solar”) builds on the well-known Lucene search engine library to create an enterprise search server with a simple HTTP/XML interface. Using Solr, large collections of documents can be indexed based on strongly typed field definitions, thereby taking advantage
Analyzing Queries for Speed with EXPLAIN
(Paul Dubois) When you are trying to optimize your queries to run quickly and efficiently, you may encounter queries that really should run faster. That’s where EXPLAIN comes in handy. This article shows you how to use EXPLAIN in query analysis.
Google XML Sitemaps – The Basics
(Scott Van Achte) They can help you to achieve up to date indexing in Google, and, in a round about way, play a small roll in assisting with rankings. Sitemaps are not needed by everyone, but can be of significant use for many websites. This article will touch on the basics of what they are, who can
.NET Tip: Logging Exceptions to the Event Log
(Eric Smith) Assuming you have Remote Desktop or some other access to a server, the system event log is a good place to store information about your application. I personally prefer to put some information into the database, but errors such as the inability to make a database connection obviously wo
How to use Oracle (17) – The basic SQL statement
(Dratz) Ok, I’m going to teach you how to write a sql statement and then I can get into all of those nice architectural pieces we’ve discussed. I know this is very, very basic, but I don’t want to skip over anything.
Introducing DB2 9: DB2 9 unveiled
(Rav Ahuja) IBM® DB2 9 (previously codenamed ‘Viper’) for Linux, UNIX, and Windows marks a new stage in the evolution of data servers. This article introduces you to many of DB2 9’s capabilities and summarizes the information included in the Introducing DB2 9 series of articles. (pdf)
FIX: The SQL-DMO SpaceAvailableInMB property of the Database object may return an incorrect value in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2000
Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you use the SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) SpaceAvailableInMB property of the Database object. You do this to determine the space that is allocated and that is unused in the operating system
Extract an XML Schema from a .NET 2.0 ConfigurationSection subclass for Configuration Validation & Intellisense in Visual Studio
(Steve Ward) .Net 2.0 introduces significant changes to the System.Configuration namespace. There are plenty of articles out there that already deal with the new ways of using the configuration classes and this article will not try to steal their thunder by essentially copying their content here. In
Open-source framework integrates AJAX and JSF
(Kathleen Richards) The final release of open-source AJAX4jsf framework 1.0 is now available. The project, sponsored by Exadel and hosted on java.net, extends the benefits of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) functionality to component framework JavaServer Faces (JSF), which supports UI develop