(Robert A. Nisbet) One way to refer to this wider context of data mining is to include data mining as part of the broader process of knowledge discovery (KD). In addition to data mining activities, KD may also contain some elements that define data extraction from source systems, customer householdi
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Oracle reassures Siebel clients
(Martin Veitch) Experts have applauded Oracle’s attempts to “have it all ways” as it develops its customer relationship management (CRM) software after buying Siebel.
Most efficient way to replicate data
(Brian Peasland) I have read numerous ways of replicating data across different operating systems and different databases. My question is, which of these methods is the most efficient and productive? Oracle mentions it but is not very clear when it comes to non-Oracle databases. Could you shed some
Introduction to Excel XML
(Brian Jones) With the soon-to-be released next version of Microsoft Office (currently code-named “Office 12”), there will be new default file formats for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. These new formats, called the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, will open up a whole new world to Office
Lock the Controls Down on a Page
The following blocks of code will provide you with a method of iterating through all the controls on a page and performing some change on the properties of the control. In this particular example, we wanted to provide a simple means of locking controls down to users who did not have edit permissions
How Much Do Concurrent Updates Impact Query Performance in Oracle?
(Roger Schrag) Oracle has a strict read-consistency model coupled with high concurrency that sets it apart from other database products such as Microsoft’s SQL Server. You can update rows in a table while I query those very same rows. Your updates will not get lost, my query results will not be corr
Web clients fatten up with OpenLaszlo
(Joshua M. Woods) OpenLaszlo is a rich client application architecture that uses Macromedia Flash as a deployment vehicle. Declarative in design, OpenLaszlo relies upon JavaScript for logic and offers advantages over traditional Flash development, including an advanced UI constraints system, an obje
Monitoring Oracle 10g RAC with Quest Spotlight on RAC – Part II
(Tarry Singh) In this second article of the series, we will discuss some of the issues that we laid down last time. I received an email from another beta tester who complained about some features that did not exist in SoRAC. He said it is just live data. I asked him “And what do you think a DBA does
Meet the experts: Ambuj Goyal talks about Information On Demand
This question and answer article features Ambuj Goyal, General Manager, IBM Information Management Software. Prior to his current role, Dr. Goyal served as general manager for IBM Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software, where he helped make IBM the industry leader in messaging, collaboration,
Processing WSDL documents with XSLT
(Mike Burr) The architects of Web service standards intentionally chose to express WSDL documents with XML in part to make them universally parseable by, and comprehensible to, development tools. While this promise has largely been fulfilled, robustly handling WSDL documents with XSLT (one of the mo