With the annual Oracle World San Francisco conference just around the corner, the hype over Oracle’s soon-to-be-announced 10G database has reached a crescendo — or so you would expect. But unlike past releases, this one has so far remained a closely guarded secret thanks to Oracle representatives’ e
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Microsoft Releases Analysis Services Fixes
Microsoft has released four Analysis Services-related hotfixes. The supported fixes are intended to correct only the problems described in the following articles. Microsoft recommends applying the fixes only to systems that are experiencing these specific problems.
Basic Performance Tuning
By Roger Sanders – DB2 Universal Database (UDB) version 8.1 for Linux, Unix, and Windows can exist in environments ranging from simple, stand-alone systems to complex combinations of servers and clients running on a variety of platforms. Regardless of the environment, users tend to care most about o
A Design Pattern for a Rule Engine
by Yuri Boglaev – Use XML data, events, and XSLT for a simple rule engine that helps you separate business rules from application code.
Revisiting RSS
by Hitesh Seth – If you haven’t come across RSS yet, RSS is “Really Simple Syndication.” Simply put, RSS provides a simple way for Web sites to provide syndicated content to downstream applications.
Sorting Dates using XSLT Extension Objects
Version 1.0 of XSLT doesn’t support sorting dates using the xsl:sort tag. This can present a problem since dates frequently play an important role in various applications. For example, if you have the following XML document, XSLT does not provide a way to sort the Customer nodes based upon the data
Oracle goes ‘grid’ for app server
By Martin LaMonica – Oracle next month plans to provide details on an update to its application server software and development tools, tied to the company’s emerging “grid” computing strategy.
Building Database Interfaces
This article is about using and building Database Interfaces (DB interfaces). DB interfaces make application development faster and easier. This is accomplished by relocating scattered DML (Insert, Update, Delete) statements into a single shared tool, the Class. A Class encapsulates data post proces
Getting Hooked in Java IDEs
By Joe McKee – Whether it’s Oracle9i JDeveloper, JBuilder, NetBeans, Eclipse, or any of the number of integrated development environments (IDEs) out there, Java developers the world over know there isn’t one all-encompassing IDE that meets all Java needs. IDEs often get riddled with extensions and p
Challenges Involved in Multimaster Replication
By Brian Keating – This document consists of two main sections. The first section provides a basic overview of the concepts of multimaster replication. The second section describes some very specific challenges that have been observed with multimaster replication, as well as solutions for those chal