(Joris Evers) Lawyers for Oracle Corp. yesterday tried to persuade a California judge to reverse a “tentative ruling” to allow a PeopleSoft Inc. lawsuit against the company to move forward.
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Oracle Database Customers Migrate Automatically to Java and IBM’s DB2 With a Single Click Using in2j
Quintessence Systems, the only vendor providing 100% automated software technology for migrating Oracle legacy applications into Java, announced that its in2j migration tool has been extended to support the automated migration of Oracle business logic into Java code and DB2-compliant SQL ready for d
IBM Beefs Up Lotus Workplace Platform
(Dennis Callaghan) IBM Corp. announced Wednesday new applications on its Lotus Workplace platform for instant messaging and team collaboration, e-learning and content management
Microsoft touts XML for mobile devices
(Rich Seeley) XML Web services applications are ideal for the new AT&T Smartphones, as well as existing Pocket PCs and other mobile devices, contends Irwin Rodrigues, lead product manager for Microsoft’s mobile device development tools.
Getting a Boost from DB2
(Michael L. Gonzales and Jon Rubin) Built-in business intelligence functions let DB2 handle data preparation so partner apps can do what they do best: Serve up actionable insight. The latest examples involve real time, spatial, OLAP, and other advanced forms of analysis.
Unicode Enables Globalization
(Jonathan Gennick and Peter Linsley) Letters, numerals, and punctuation—all characters, in fact—are represented in a computer as numbers, and there are dozens of different schemes for encoding characters. As computer applications became more global, driving the need to support characters from la
Overview of XML Convert and XFlat
Companies have started using XML to send application data to browsers and to business applications. XML is well suited for the interchange of data, since XML documents are self-describing, easily parsed and can represent complex data structures. Also, there is a wide variety of high-quality, inexpen
Storing object data as XML
(Brian Schaffner) One of the benefits of XML over other data formats is that it closely resembles the structure of object data. Because much of today’s design and development is object-based, it’s no surprise that when the data is being passed around, it is often represented as XML. However, when it
Trace That Event with SQL Server Profiler
(Itzik Ben-Gan) Tracing client requests and server responses isn’t easy if you’re using SQL Server versions before 6.5. A freeware tracing tool called SQLEye, a network Open Data Services (ODS) sniffer, can do the job, but it’s hard to set up and complex to use, even for basic traces.
Tuning DB2: Where Your Data Is and Why it Matters
(Greg Nash) Database performance is one of those things that goes unnoticed, until it starts flagging. There are three broad areas relevant to database performance. Read more about it in this article.