By Dawn Kawamoto – Recently unsealed internal e-mails from Oracle executives outline the company’s strategy and thoughts in its effort to acquire PeopleSoft in a hostile takeover.
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Microsoft InfoPath 2003 Guided Tours: InfoPath 2003 and Oracle
A step-by-step guided tour on connecting to Oracle database from InfoPath 2003 via .NET Web service.
Data warehousing gets active
By Robert Westervelt – Teradata Warehouse executive Vickie Farrell gives her two cents on the value of the new data warehouse, and the changing role that DBAs play in it.
IBM utility software on its way
By Stephen Shankland – IBM will release software at month’s end to let customers start sampling some of the promised benefits of Big Blue’s utility computing vision.IBM has begun showing off the new product, called Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator, which IBM acquired when it bought Think Dyna
Unit Test Java Web Apps With Cactus
by Kevin Jones – “Test early, test often” is a tenet of extreme programming because testing reduces debugging time. See how to use the Cactus environment to unit test server-side Java components.
How XML can be used
by Jan Egil Refsnes – Some of the different ways XML can be used.
Using SQL Server’s CHARINDEX and PATINDEX
Greg Larsen discusses using the CHARINDEX and PATINDEX functions to search text columns and character strings. Included are how each of these functions operate, and an explaination of the differences between them. Also provided are examples on how you might use these functions to solve a number of d
SQL Server Skills in Hot Demand
While IT hiring may slow slightly in the third quarter, according to a survey conducted by the recruiter Robert Half Technology, demand for professionals with SQL Server skills remains strong.(R)
IBM And Borland Team To Take On Microsoft
By Charles Babcock – Borland’s C# Builder packages will now ship with IBM’s DB2 Universal Database System, while IBM will include C# Builder with all DB2 shipments.
IBM mixes search into Masala data tool
By Martin LaMonica – The Armonk, N.Y.-based company said it will draw on its research project, called WebFountain, to let people search corporate databases in the same way they might search the Web. The feature will appear in the second version of DB2 Information Integrator, code-named Masala. The u