by Jon Udell – Back in April I made the case for writing weblog entries in XHTML, using CSS for a dual purpose: to control presentation and as hooks for structured search. I then started to accumulate well-formed content, writing CSS class attributes with an eye toward data mining, and flowing XHTML
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Using XML Schemas Effectively in WSDL Design
By Chris Peltz & Mark Secrist – Developers are beginning to develop more sophisticated Web services, exchanging complex XML documents rather than simple parameter types. As this shift takes place, development teams begin to grapple with different approaches to designing these Web services interfaces
Gates, Mills Tout Web Services Breakthrough
By Michael R. Zimmerman – Bill Gates and IBM Software chief Steve Mills joined together to give an update on their companies’ combined work in advancing Web services. In an intimate setting at the St. Regis Hotel, Gates, Microsoft Corp.’s chief software architect and chairman, and Mills, IBM
The Making of Oracle Database 10g
By Barbara Assadi – How many engineers, developers, and customers does it take to change a database? A behind-the-scenes look at how the world’s most sophisticated database was built.
sp_depends
System stored procedure that displays information about database object dependencies.
SQL Server Backup and Restore: Back to Basics with SQL Litespeed
This document analyzes the various options available for your backup and recovery process with SQL Server 2000 as well as an enhancement to your SQL Server backup and recovery process using a highly efficient backup and restore utility that provides significant time and disk space savings called SQL
Can’t Anyone Write Good SQL These Days?
by Jack Herrington – There are many up-and-coming database access protocols, but exactly what do we need them for? Is it possible that those who would like to replace SQL for being slow should learn to write better SQL?
SQL Server Profiler and Parameterized Statements
Since upgrading to SQL Server 2000, I have encountered a problem in SQL Profiler: I am unable to capture parameterized Transact-SQL statements. Instead of the parameter @p1, I want the actual value used in the query execution. How can I place the substitution without referencing other lines in the t
DB2 Archive Log Accelerator, V2
IBM DB2 Archive Log Accelerator (formerly DB2 Archive Log Compression Tool) reduces the overhead that is associated with database log management to balance the increases in archive log growth. The tool achieves this using a combination of data striping (for faster log volume through-put) and DFSMS h
Beta testers give 10g rave reviews
By Robert Westervelt – Arvind Gidwani, IT manager at San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., is beaming over the results of beta tests that he conducted on Oracle’s new database and application server, 10g.