by George M. Pieri and Arnoll Solano – Using XML to serve up your data provides business objects without properties, which speeds up code development and maintenance. Discover approaches that can reduce development time.
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XSLT Recipes for Interacting with XML Data
by Jon Udell – In last month’s column, "The Document is the Database", I sketched out an approach to building a web-based application backed by pure XML (and as a matter of fact, XHTML) data. I’ve continued to develop the idea, and this month I’ll explore some of the XSLT-related recipes that have e
Oracle Shows Off Early Version Of WS-I Supply Chain Product
By Keith Ferrell – Oracle announced Friday that it’s unwrapping and giving away a preliminary version of a Web services interoperability (WS-I) based product for enterprise supply chains.
XQuery and SQL: Vive la Différence
By Ken North – Sometimes SQL and XML documents get along just fine. Sometimes they don’t. A new query language is getting everything talking again.
Simulating Massively Parallel Database Processing
By Martin P. Lurie – Massively parallel processing (MPP) holds the key to making many inexpensive computers work together to solve a large problem. Some problems are very difficult to break into pieces and farm out to a cluster of machines. We are fortunate that relational databases lend themselves
IOUG Day: The User Perspective Sunday, September 7, 2003 1:00-4:30 p.m. at OracleWorld
Kick-off your OracleWorld experience with an informative day of programming offered for Oracle users by Oracle users. Participate in the “IOUG Day: The User Perspective” presented by the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) on Sunday, September 7.
Examples of SQL for DB2, part 1
Can you give examples of SQL for DB2–such as in PL/SQL for Oracle where they have if, then…else…begin…end, etc–or references where I can find more info?(R)
Add Trees in SQL Server
While SQL Server doesn’t provide native support for hierarchical data, it’s not that hard to add. R.L. Parker explains.
Security Experts Decry ‘Good’ Worm
By Dennis Fisher – Security experts are now tracking a new variant of the Blaster worm, only this one attempts to patch vulnerable systems. Known as Blaster.D, the worm acts much like the original Blaster in that it infects machines that haven’t yet been patched against the RPC DCOM vulnerabi
Managing Users Permissions on SQL Server
By Alexander Chigrik – Permissions are the rights to access the database objects. Permissions can be granted to a user or role to allow that user or role to perform operations such as selection, insertion or modification of data rows.