by Peter Varhol – New platform features and APIs enhance Web services technologies in Java and bring platform-neutral Web services to the enterprise
Author: SSWUG Research
XSL Conditional Choose
by Jan Egil Refsnes – How to let the XML parser conditionally choose the XML transformation.
Interim Yukon Beta Is Out
WinBeta.org has posted a notice to Yukon SQL Server testers, re: the PDC build of its next-gen database that Microsoft is planning to distribute in Los Angeles next week at its Professional Developers Conference.
Oracle 10g needs time
By Mark Street – Analyst firm Gartner last week warned firms to be careful about upgrading from Oracle’s 8i database to 10g, which supports grid computing.
IBM raises SMB ante with DB2 content manager offering
By Kate Evans-Correia – The battle for SMB supremacy is heating up. Oracle has baited the hook with a 9i sale and a crash course in 10g that covers basic database administration, performance and tuning, and important security concepts. IBM has its sights on being king of content with a slew of conte
Oracle Staying Pat With 10G Pricing
By Steven Burke – Oracle is pushing fast and furious into the midmarket with its new lower priced Standard One Edition, a single CPU version of its database, but is staying pat with pricing on its upcoming 10g product.
Linux Database: DB2 vs. Oracle
A great Branham Group Inc. document comparing IBM® DB2® vs. Oracle9i on Linux. This document looks at cost of owenership, ease of use, reliability, and scalability:
SQL Server administration best practices
by Divya Kalra & Narayana Vyas Kondreddi – This article covers the database administration best practices in detail, with a special focus on backup/restore and disaster recovery. Also provides you with daily, weekly, monthly checklists to help you organize your work as a DBA.
An Introduction to DB2 Table Spaces
By Craig S. Mullins – Although DB2 data is accessed at the table level, those skilled in DB2 database design and administration know that the actual data is actually stored in a structure known as a table space.
Commercializing the Semantic Web
by Kendall Grant Clark – This week I am attending, along with nearly 500 other people, the 2nd annual International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), on Sanibel Island, near Fort Myers, Florida. In addition to ISWC, there have been meetings of DAML principal investigators, of the various communities c