By Margie Semilof – Microsoft plans to offer developers and others an early look at its vision for Web services, database management and the next version of Windows at this week’s Professional Developers Conference.
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Compiling DB2 UDB Stored Procedures with GCC on Windows
By Jim Haungs – Historically, using stored procedures in DB2 has required a separately installed (and sometimes costly) C compiler. The solution outlined in this document describes how to install and use the GNU C Compiler (GCC), a free open-source C compiler.
DB2 Update Coming into Focus
(John S. McCright) IBM is using its partnership with Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Studio operations to bring out products that compete head on with Microsoft’s SQL Server group. Big Blue will roll out new developer tools to simplify and automate creation of .Net applications that run on the company’s
2003 Editors’ Choice Awards
By David A. Kelly – Once again, Oracle Magazine editors scoured the globe in search of the most innovative, dedicated, and thoughtful Oracle users and managers we could find. This year, our Editors’ Choice Awards include 21 winners in 20 categories, recognizing users of Oracle’s business intelligenc
MIN-MAX PL/SQL
MIN-MAX PL/SQL is a best practices and optimization seminar by O’Reilly author Steven Feuerstein, who has selected from Oracle’s many new PL/SQL features and his recommended best practices to create a three-day course that will radically change the way you design and implement PL/SQL-based applicati
Better SOAP interfaces with header elements
In this tip, Benoît Marchal discusses how to design modular, flexible, and extensible service interfaces with SOAP headers.
XML Schema Design Patterns: Is Complex Type Derivation Unnecessary?
by Dare Obasanjo – W3C XML Schema (WXS) possesses a number of features that mimic object oriented concepts, including type derivation and polymorphism. However real world experience has shown that these features tend to complicate schemas, may have subtle interactions that lead tricky problems, and
Where Are Web Services?
by Thomas Murphy – Get an update on Web services standards’ progress, and learn how Web services are being used and how they can affect your applications.
Integrating Services with XSLT
by Will Provost – For all the magic that XML, SOAP, and WSDL offer in allowing businesses to interoperate, they do not solve the more traditional problems of integrating data models and message formats. This article shows how XSLT can be used to integrate data models across web services.
OASIS forms panel for business process flavor of ebXML
The OASIS standards body on Monday announced that it has created a technical committee to work on the proposed Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS) for the ebXML standard.