(Peter Mikhalenko) In the first part of this article about device independence in the Web, I introduced the main principles from three points of view: the user, the author, and the delivery mechanism. When a request is made for a web resource, not only should the request specify the resource identif
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Oracle 10g’s Undo Advisor
(James Koopmann) As a DBA, you are always faced with the critical question of whether the undo that you have created is in fact sufficient for the transaction mix on your database system. Oracle has now given us an Undo Advisor in Oracle 10g to help simplify the answer.
Dual Data Centers Accelerate Recovery Strategies
(Joe McKendrick) The prize seems so tantalizingly close that many data center managers can almost touch it. Vendors, analysts, and end-users alike are talking about achieving something unimaginable even just a few years ago – almost transparent business continuity that could keep IT systems up and r
PHP Devs Seek ASP.NET Skills as ‘Code Delta’ Narrows
(Vance McCarthy) PHP 5’s push to incorporate enterprise-caliber features (particularly with PHP 5’s adoption of an object-oriented model and native SOAP/web services extensions) is having an interesting impact. Some long-time PHP developers seem to be giving Microsoft’s ASP.NET another look. Far
Rapid Struts Development
(Harshad Oak) Would you like to avoid having to create the same Struts structure again and again? The Oracle JDeveloper 10g integrated development environment (IDE) lets you skip some Struts tedium and do what you want to do: build Struts applications quickly. This article shows how Oracle JDeve
Making a Change in a World Without Windows: DB2 for z/OS Version 8 Provides Some New Options (Part 2)
(Susan Lawson) Achieving a true 24×7 environment is almost impossible. It is rather our cleverness at hiding outages from our users that makes us “appear” 24×7. But as requirements get stricter we are going to need more help. Maintenance aside, if our databases were static life would be great, but u
SimpleType and ComplexType in a Schema
(Deepak Vohra and Ajay Vohra) This tutorial discusses the simpleType and complexType XML Schema structures and their corresponding representations in an XML document. XML Schema is used as the basis of an XML document structure, and some of the XML technologies, such as JAXB, are based on XML Schema
‘Dog Fooding’ Lessons: Microsoft Internal IT Group Deploys Beta 2 of Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Q&A: A senior internal technology architect shares insight Microsoft has gained from deploying and testing the latest beta release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as part of the company’s SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning system.
Meet the Experts: Abdul Al-Azzawe on development enhancements in DB2 Universal Database V8.2
DB2 Universal Database V8.2, known as ‘Stinger,’ features many enhancements of particular interest to developers. Abdul Al-Azzawe, architect for the integration of DB2 with Visual Studio .NET, talks to developerWorks DB2 readers about enhancements to debugging, Web services support, new features for
Batching DML Opearations in SQL Server
(Vinod Kumar) This requirement again comes from the repeated posts in the local usergroup of mine. Bussiness processes at some time would want to Update millions of rows based on some criteria. Even for a matter of fact sometimes we would be interested in deleting tons of rows. And issuing a DELETE