IBM announced new software that extends the reach of business information to handheld computing devices. The new database software provides customers with real-time access to business information, enabling mobile employees to tap into critical data to respond faster to customer needs and be more pro
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Adobe Acquisition Could Protect PDF
Adobe Systems said that it had acquired assets from XML messaging and metadata software developer Yellow Dragon, a move that could serve to fortify Adobe’s position as a maker of Web-based forms.
Ellison gagging on PeopleSoft’s poison pill
(John Paczkowski) PeopleSoft may have finally found a way to stave off Oracle’s $7.3 billion hostile takeover bid. In a filing with the Delaware Court of Chancery, Oracle said that PeopleSoft’s customer-refund plan may force it to abandon its bid for the company.
SQL scripts that compare schemas in two different instances for differences
(Ken Atkins) So you have your application installed in three different instances (Development, Test, Production). Or maybe that is six (conversion, demo, training), or eight? Well, how do you keep all of that in sync? No matter how good your migration procedures, differences between the instances so
Oracle Dates and Times
A date type in Oracle stores both date and time. An internal format is used to represent values of date fields. Oracle provides a number of functions to work with date fields. These functions are reviewed here.
XML Parser Comparison
In order to process XML data every program or server process needs an XML parser. The parser extracts the actual data out of the textual representation and creates either events or new data structures from them. Parsers also check whether documents conform to the XML standard and have a correct stru
XSD: Structure definitions are not DTDs
(Paul Prescod) The DTD concept is more than 10 years old now. The world has changed alot since then, and we know of many flaws with them. The most *obvious* complaint is that they are in a notation that is different from XML instance syntax. Personally, I think that the more subtle flaws are much mo
SQL Date Handler function
If you’ve ever written a script that needs to UPDATE or INSERT Date values in a database AND you live outside of North America, then I’d nearly bet that (like me) you’ve stayed up until midnight cursing the fact that all dates in SQL Server and MS-Access are natively converted from US date format (
Replication Monitoring Center for DB2
Replication Monitoring Center for DB2 is a software tool that supports DB2 replication supervision. It is used atop DB2 DataPropagator, the DB2 UDB data replication feature. The Replication Monitoring Center for DB2 is used to supervise replication scenarios, reporting configuration, and operational
Installing and Running the JDBCTM API Test Suite
The JDBCTM API test suite contains tests useful for testing a driver based on JDBC technology (“JDBC driver”) for it’s conformance to the requirements of the JavaTM 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EETM). This test suite is intended to assist driver vendors in preparing their drivers for certificati