By Vyas Kondreddi – A new book dedicated to the XML functionality of SQL Server. This book has already received some great reviews at Amazon.
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Secure Web Services Across Platforms
BEA CTO Scott Dietzen describes how BEA can help .NET development teams achieve secure interoperability with Java-based Web services.
Convert attributes with XSLT
Templates are useful for breaking stylesheets into small, manageable units. Another benefit of templates is that the processor selects the most appropriate one automatically, based on the matching condition. Most templates match on elements, but as Benoît Marchal demonstrates in this tip, a template
XML traffic to force major network upgrades
By Jim Rendon – The increasing adoption of Web services is beginning to clog enterprise networks with Extensible Markup Language (XML) traffic, causing a series of ramifications, from ballooning bandwidth requirements to the need for new application-layer devices and even changes in firewalls.
Beyond SQL Server
The days of the SQL Server DBA’s isolation are passing away as products become more complex and interdependent. This week, Brian Moran gives an overview of upcoming technologies and their important to the SQL Server community.
Oracle’s Default TEMPORARY Tablespaces
Using the SYSTEM tablespace as a temporary tablespace is to be frowned upon, yet Oracle still lets us assign it as such. James Koopmann explores a better way.
Connectivity Cheat Sheet for DB2 Universal Database – Part 2
By Raul F. Chong – Part 2 of this popular series shows you how to configure DB2 UDB for z/OS as a client to DB2 servers on distributed platforms, or to another DB2 for z/OS server.
DB2 Error
I am getting an error in my db2diag.log file. "All pages in buffer pool 1 are in use." What would be the cause of this and how can I fix it?
Optimizing Oracle Performance
Oracle DBAs and developers are all too familiar with the outlay of time and resources, blown budgets, missed deadlines, and marginally effective performance fiddling that is commonplace with traditional methods of Oracle performance tuning. In Optimizing Oracle Performance, Cary Millsap, former VP o
DB2 Flaws Highlight Vulnerability Concerns
By Lisa Vaas – IBM has patched recently uncovered security vulnerabilities in its DB2 Universal Database, but the process it followed has left some security researchers wondering if the company is too tight-lipped on the subject.