John Wookey, senior vice president of application development at Oracle, is walking a fine line. He’s charged with building out Oracle’s next iterations of its E-Business, PeopleSoft Enterprise and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne suites, due next year. At the same time, he’s leading the development of Orac
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Java Tip 128: Create a quick-and-dirty XML parser
(Steven R. Brandt) XML is a popular data format for several reasons: it is human readable, self-describing, and portable. Unfortunately, many Java-based XML parsers are very large; for example, Sun Microsystems’ jaxp.jar and parser.jar libraries are 1.4 MB each. If you are running with limited memor
SQL Server 2000 Incremental Bulk Load Case Study
(Man Xiong and Sunil Agarwal) Incremental bulk load refers to loading data into a nonempty table. The key question during incremental bulk load is whether indexes should be dropped before bulk load. The answer depends on multiple factors. This paper attempts to answer this question through a cas
Introducing XML or Non-XML Based Creative Modeler In Microsoft .NET
(Patrick Gannon) The data translation engine built into Creative Modeler supports converting data from source (non-XML) formats into XML formats, and back again. It also supports converting XML formats into other XML formats via XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations). To convert non-X
Best practices and performance considerations using RedBack Objects
(Ray Else) Learn the best practices of RedBack Object planning, creation, and use for an effective Web site. Poorly planned use of RedBack Objects could mean a slow-performing Web site (and an unnecessary load on your database server), whereas the well-planned use of RedBack Objects can mean a fast,
Building a PHP5 Form Processor: Coding the Form Validator Module
(Alejandro Gervasio) In this second part of a three-part series, we take up the topic of server-side validation. By the time you finish this article, you’ll have the general guidelines for how to build a form validating class. You’ll use some PHP built-in introspection functions, along with regular
Single Click Diagnostic Collection
(Chris Eaton) There is more to saying DB2 is optimized for SAP than just having the best performance. Of course if you want the best performing database for SAP, the benchmark results available here show that DB2 tops the list. But it takes a lot more than good performance to have a successful syste
Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article introduces you to designing and working with an SQL Server 2005 database using the Visual Studio 2005 Integrated Development Environment. You will also learn how to work with the “Grid View” control.
Running A MySQL-Based DNS Server: MyDNS
(Falko Timme) In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS, a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. This has the advantage that you can easily use web-based frontends to administrate your DNS records.
Comparing Microsoft SQL Server Replication and DataXtend RE Replication for Mobile and Distributed Applications
If you are considering Microsoft replication capabilities you need to understand how these capabilities compare to DataXtend RE. This white paper discusses the differences in SQL Server and DataXtend RE replication capabilities across several areas and also reviews the challenges of supporting multi