(Dennis Callaghan) Salesforce.com will announce at its inaugural Dreamforce user and developer conference in San Francisco new versions of its namesake hosted CRM application service and sforce hosted application server. Salesforce.com is adding a SQL-like interface to their product, opening the
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Review: SQL Deploy
(Mike Gunderloy) Here’s a problem many developers have faced: your application is out there with customers, it’s cranking along, and you’ve fixed some bugs or enhanced some features. Now you need to update the SQL Server database that it depends on, without losing customer data. You’ve got the SQL s
DB2 stored procedures and dynamic cursors
(Tim Albrecht) With a more complete implementation of stored procedures in DB2 Versions 5 and 6, many new distributed access opportunities have been given to the DB2 developer. Many shops, ours included, severely limited or completely denied Dynamic SQL access to operational Online Transaction proce
eXtreme eXtensibility
(Roger L. Costello) This document describes a way of designing XML Schemas which enables data to be collected (and stored as XML) in an independent, distributed fashion, and with no restrictions on the XML vocabulary. The design pattern that is presented is especially useful for situations where:
HOWTO: Retrieve a Recordset from an Oracle Stored Procedure Using ADO on ASP
This article demonstrates how to call an Oracle package to retrieve a recordset using ADO on Active Server Pages (ASP). This article assumes that: You are proficient with Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and Active Server Pages (ASP). You understand Oracle’s
Inside Microsoft’s Longhorn plans
(Martin LaMonica) Is Microsoft’s new version of Windows a radical innovation or a return to the company’s winner-take-all software strategy from a decade ago? The next operating system, code-named Longhorn, promises a huge leap forward from current versions of Windows, with better graphics, stor
Oracle Plans Mid-market Push With 10g
(Barbara Darrow) Oracle says its upcoming database will do big things for mid-sized customers. A key goal Oracle10g, due by years’ end, is not only to bolster the company’s strong position in the enterprise but to out-maneuver Microsoft SQL server in smaller companies, said Andy Mendelsohn, seni
University of Michigan and IBM Collaborate on Digital Asset Management
The University of Michigan has selected IBM to pursue a digital vision and to collaborate on a Digital Asset Management system in the Living Laboratory of the university’s Media Union. The two are working on the university classroom of the near future, where faculty and students find and use audio,
Approximate XML Joins
(Sudipto Guha, Divesh Srivastava, H.V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas and Ting Yu) XML is widely recognized as the data interchange standard for tomorrow, because of its ability to represent data from a wide variety of sources. Hence, XML is likely to be the format through which data from multiple sources i
Opinion: Real Intelligence, or Paralysis by Analysis?
(Joe McKendrick) Business intelligence and analytics used to be a closed process in which a small room of analysts loaded sales figures into proprietary software or onto spreadsheets to generate reports for corporate decision makers. Now, three trends are sweeping away this process, but threaten to