(Renee Boucher Ferguson) It’s official: Oracle is approved to acquire Siebel Systems for $5.85 billion by day’s end.
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The Secrets of Oracle Row Chaining and Migration
If you notice poor performance in your Oracle database Row Chaining and Migration may be one of several reasons, but we can prevent some of them by properly designing and/or diagnosing the database.
Windows and Open-Source Software: A Growing Trend
The general perception that open source equals Linux is changing as open-source software matures and users look to gain benefits such as cost savings and the flexibility that comes with having access to source code, analysts say.
An Overview Of The New Services, Controls, And Features In ASP.NET 2.0
(Jeff Prosise) Since its introduction in 2002, ASP.NET has become the gold standard for Web applications run on servers powered by Microsoft Windows. In version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET sheds its new-kid-on-the-block status. Its aim is to reduce the amount of code required to
Access your database from everywhere
(Dirk Fechner, Samuel Poon and Shan Chen) Today applications are often designed for international use. These applications may be required to cope with character strings in different languages. Unicode has been established as a language-independent standard for the representation of characters.
The future of HTML, Part 2: XHTML 2.0
(Edd Dumbill) In the previous article in this series, I described why HTML is due for an update, both to fix past problems and to meet the growing requirements of the tasks to which Web pages and applications are put. I explained the work of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WH
How To Use AJAX Patterns
(Kris Hadlock) Design patterns make development more efficient by speeding up common programming processes and eliminating the need to write redundant code across multiple projects. AJAX design patterns are emerging with the increased popularity of its use in Web application development. In this art
Finding the needle in the Deadlock haystack
(Chris Eaton) How many people out there have enjoyed the hunt for the deadlock culprits? If you are very analytical and enjoy a good murder mystery then perhaps you enjoy tracking down the two lines of application code that caused a deadlock that you wanted to resolve. For those that have not had th
A Link to LINQ
(A. Russell Jones) XML, Arrays, DataSets, database tables, collections of all types—all these have a common attribute; they are data stores that hold sets of data values or objects grouped together for some reason. It follows logically that developers would also like to be able to extract individual
You may receive an error message when you try to run a drillthrough query on a server that is running Analysis Services SP4
When you try to run a drillthrough query on a server that is running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Service Pack 4 (SP4), you may receive the following error message: The Operation requested failed due to security problem – resource access error