By Barney Beal – In its second online “town meeting” aimed at getting customers to back its acquisition attempt, Oracle Corp. once again pledged to continue support of PeopleSoft Inc. products, should its hostile takeover bid prove successful.
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Integrating with DB2 XML Extender
By David Beulke – As system integration and exchanging data with business partners becomes increasingly important, XML and data types such as character large objects (CLOBs), LOBs, and user-defined types (UDTs) become important standards. DB2 easily integrates unstructured data, XML, and other data
Five Performance Rules for Developing DB2 Web Applications With C# Builder
By Glenn Stephens – Speed. Scalability. These are the mantras of Internet development and they are not necessarily difficult to achieve. Applying a few simple rules can mean the difference between a slow or fast Internet application. In this article, you will learn five rules for developing fast Mic
BMC Software® and GoldenGate Software Form Alliance
BMC Software. Inc. and GoldenGate Software announced a sales, marketing and technology alliance. The alliance enables BMC Software to extend its SmartDBA data management portfolio with the addition of GoldenGate’s data synchronization capabilities, creating the industry’s first complete data managem
SQL Server Connection Pooling Myths
by Shawn Kresal – Many of us are already familiar with connection pooling and understand to some degree its importance in web and SQL Server programming. We’ve all heard the adage that “connections are expensive” and “pooling is good”. This article will examine the topic in more detail, bringing to
Updating SQL Server Connection Properties from the DTS Package INI File
Muthusamy Anantha Kumar steps through updating the connection properties from the DTS package INI file during run time.
Memory Leak Problems with SP3
By Brian Moran – In SP3, Microsoft made changes to the way SQL Server allocates metadata for ODBC statements, causing memory leaks in some cases. SP3 users should at least consider upgrading to SP3a.
SQL Server Scalability FAQ
Review this FAQ to find answers to some common questions about how SQL Server 2000 scales to meet the needs of very large database (VLDB) systems.
Book Review: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000, by Kalen Delaney
Review by Vyas Kondreddi – This is the most comprehensive book for anyone interested in knowing how SQL Server works internally. You might ask, “Who is interested in the internals of SQL Server?”. My answer would be, “Any DBA or technical architect, who undertakes serious SQL Server implementations.
Oracle Pushes Its App Server Toward Grid
By Charles Babcock – Application Server 10G will deviate from the academic approach to grid computing, where a central server “scavenges for unused processing cycles” from computers on the network.