(Michael Sanchez) A few years ago Kurt Cagle wrote an article discussing how to convert fixed-width text records to XML, a more malleable format, making it possible to use XSL and XSLT to further transform those records into almost any format needed. Kurt’s article was educational, an excellent
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DB2 Optimized for SAP – Set it and forget it.
(Chris Eaton) You may have read that the last release of DB2 (8.2.2) was specifically Optimized for SAP. What exactly does that mean? Well in this and the next few postings I’ll describe exactly what new features were in 8.2.2 and how, if you are using SAP (and even if you are not), you can take adv
Oracle Upgrades Financial Modules
(Renee Boucher Ferguson) Beefing up the financial modules that complement its E-Business Suite, Oracle Corp. announced upgrades to its namesake Internal Controls Manager and Financial Consolidation Hub.
Stored Procedures For Beginners — Part – 1
(Vivek.T) This article serves to prime the discussion on SQL Server stored procedure programming. It will tell you what a stored procedure is, how stored procedures are often used, and why and how you should use them.
How Oracle approaches the problem of identity management
(Bob Watkins) Oracle Identity Management is a comprehensive identity management solution that leverages the strengths of its underlying database and application server. It includes centralized and delegated administration over user identities and access to services, provisioning of user services, an
Access In-memory Objects Easily with JoSQL
(Laurence Moroney) Once in a while something comes along that is so simple, so straightforward, and so obvious that it’s amazing that nobody did it long ago. Take blogging, for example: People have been putting their thoughts into various media for a long time, certainly long before the Web. Give so
Synchronizing a Local Data Store with Microsoft Outlook
Many organizations have made multi-million dollar investments in customer relationship management (CRM) systems and line of business (LOB) applications over the last decade. Although many of these applications have delivered significant business benefits, some organizations have found that these bes
Protect Your Web Services Through The Extensible Policy Framework In WSE 3.0
(Tomasz Janczuk) Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 is an add-on to Visual Studio 2005 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It provides advanced Web services capabilities, helping to keep pace with the evolving Web services protocol specifications.
LXer Feature: Interview with IBM: DB2 in the Mid-Range Market
The standard methods with which we conduct interviews broke down unexpectedly in our haste to arrange contacts for database vendor interviews. Late in December when contact was made with IBM the confirming letter outlining the structure and content of possible questions were instead taken as the lis
Up Start
(Kim Moutsos) Fred Sobotka spent his formative years coloring on the back of the used punch cards his father brought home from his job at UNIVAC. By junior high, he had a self-described “obsession” with programming, even teaching himself how to code in 6502 assembly language from magazine articles.