(Paolo Bruni and John Iczkovits) Disk storage has changed rapidly over the past few years with the delivery of new functions and improved performance. DB2 has made many changes to keep pace and make use of the disk improvements. (pdf)
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XQuery: A 360-Degree View
(Daniela Florescu) Different communities embrace the language for different reasons. Its platform and vendor neutrality make it a natural format for Service Oriented Architectures and Web Services. Its simple syntax is widespread and its schema flexibility makes XML attractive.
Great Minds in Development: Taking Advantage of ASP.NET 2.0
In our latest DevSource video in the Great Minds in Development series, Rob Howard (founder of Telligent Systems and one of the ASP.NET designers at Microsoft) talks about the evolution of ASP.NET, how to build faster and more secure applications, and the founding of Telligent Systems. (video)
Reusable XSL Stylesheets and Templates
(Tony Marston) Some people complain than XML and XSL are too verbose, that it takes too may keystrokes to achieve the simplest of things. To me this is irrelevant – it is much more important that software be readable and understandable to other humans than be quick to type. I would rather take a min
Enabling AWE Memory for SQL Server
Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) allow 32-bit operating systems to access large amounts of memory. AWE is exposed by the operating system, and is implemented with slight differences in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003. AWE is enabled using the awe enabled Option.
Customizing Oracle 10g Installation Options
(John Kanagaraj, Arun Kumar and Richard Stroupe) Oracle has greatly improved the Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), giving it more tools for you to manage all components of the software and hardware framework in the corporate environment. The OEM has extended its level of control to manage Oracle data
Technical context and cultural consequences of XML
(S. Adler, R. Cochrane, J. F. Morar and A. Spector) The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an open standard for creating domain- and industry-specific markup vocabularies. XML has become the predominant mechanism for electronic data interchange between information systems and can be described as a
Deploying Oracle 10g with Altiris Deployment Solution on Dell PowerEdge Servers
(Chethan Kumar, Eric Szewczyk and Mahmoud Ahmadian) This article explores the possibility of integrating an Oracle 10g Standard Edition ONE database installation with the Altiris Server deployment process to offer a single integrated solution.
How to use Oracle 10g Single-Sign-On with Microsoft .NET applications
(Sanjeev Malik) Today’s enterprise-wide systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated with a variety of operating systems and software development platforms. This presents the constant challenge of integration, which requires creative ways of configuring products from multiple vendors to work in t
Revisiting Operator Overloading
(Ken Getz) On the conference circuit recently, I was speaking about some of my favorite new features in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, using the content of three recent columns in this series as fodder. In my talk I sped through generics, operator overloading, and the BackgroundWorker component,