(Howard Katz) After six long years moving along the W3C’s Recommendation track, the XQuery specification is taking on much of the mythic and enduring look of a Hollywood franchise — “Star Wars” and the “Lord of the Rings” series come to mind. XQuery had its origins in a W3C-sponsored query language
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An XML Guru’s Guide to BizTalk Server 2004, Part I
(Aaron Skonnard) Who would have believed that XML, such a seemingly trivial technology, could revolutionize an industry? It may have seemed like a long shot in the beginning, but the XML aficionados saw something special and pragmatic right away—a sort of duct tape for the world’s information sy
Knowledge Management and Resource Dependencies
(Michael Abeln) It has been argued that the three most important resources of a corporation are the capital resources, the human resources and the information resources. In this article, I will attempt to show the interdependency of these resources from a strategic perspective.
Legal auditing firm retains customers with Oracle BI
(Mark Brunelli) There’s no motivation like customer retention. St. Louis-based legal auditing firm Stuart, Maue, Mitchell & James, Ltd. got a stark reminder of this lesson when, faced with the prospect of losing two of its largest clients, the company was forced to put a long-delayed Business In
Ready, set, go! SQL Server performance-tuning checklist
(Jeremy Kadlec) What do I need to do? There is so much, where do I start? What should I do next? Wow, my SQL Server is flying! If you start out not knowing where to go and end up with an exceptionally performing SQL Server, you made it. Take a look at this SQL Server performance-tuning checklist to
Fortune 500 Firms Settle on Open Source Patterns
(Vance McCarthy) Flashline, author of software asset management solutions, has put together a Patterns Book for helping get Open Source projected started within an enterprise, even very demanding ones
Real-World AJAX
By now there isn’t a software developer on earth who isn’t aware of the collection of programming technologies known as AJAX. But you can’t bank awareness. So, how in concrete terms can you take advantage in your own projects of this newly popular way of delivering online content to users without re
SOA Web Services And Best Practices For .NET WebSphere Interoperability
(Laurence Moroney) Experience shows that it’s a challenge getting applications to run across a diverse array of software and hardware platforms with acceptable availability, performance, scalability, and security. As such, several methodologies and standards of integration or interoperability have
Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Site Navigation – Part 3
(Scott Mitchell) In addition to this article series on ASP.NET 2.0’s site navigation, I am also currently authoring an article series on ASP.NET 2.0’s membership, roles, and profile. The membership system in ASP.NET provides a programmatic API for creating and managing user accounts, whereas the rol
Almost forgot to talk about DB2 Version 8 New Function Mode before moving on!
(Willie Favero) It’s finally time to pull the big trigger and start using all of that DB2 for z/OS Version 8 stuff you’ve heard so much about. The planning has been completed, you ran the IVPs and performed all of the testing under Compat Mode, and migrated the catalog during ENFM. Now you are ready