By Howard Fosdick – The November 2002 release of DB2 UDB version 8.1 for Linux, Unix, and Windows prompted an upgrade of the DB2 certification program. Certification requirements are largely the same, and most of the new v.8 certification exams have direct counterparts in the older DB2 tests.
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Designing SQL Server Security for ASP.NET
You are invited to attend this one-hour LIVE online Web Seminar right at your computer desktop!Presenter: Morris Lewis – Authenticating users’ identities in ASP.NET applications is more difficult than traditional client-server applications because users rarely have accounts within the estab
BMC bolsters DB2 profile
BMC Software has acquired DGI (Database Guys Inc.), a maker of performance management tools for IBM’s DB2 Universal Database, for $3 million, according to BMC.
WinCE database application for MS SQL Server 7 using eVB and XML
by Shakil Siraj – The article is based on one of many experimental things I do when I am bored. The concept is pretty simple. I wanted my eVB application to talk to MS SQL Sever 7 over the TCP/IP network, just the kind of the thing I do with my desktop database applications. I couldn’t find any SQL
Why do 4GB DB2 objects max out at 5,826 cylinders of 3390 storage?
with Robert Catterall – Without using SMS, DB2 has an object size limit of 4GB. According to the documentation I can find, this would equate to about 4,704 cylinders of 3390 storage. Yet when we see physical DB2 objects reach this limit, they always max out at 5,826 cylinders. Do you know why this i
Microsoft Response to Publication of Slammer Code
On June 10, Wired Magazine ran an article titled “Slammed! An Inside View of the Worm that Crashed the Internet in 15 Seconds” (Wired Magazine, July 2003). This article includes a copy of the Slammer worm source code. Publication of the source code could make it possible for someone to create a more
Build Data-Driven Web Services with Updated XML Support for SQL Server 2000
XML is becoming the ubiquitous data format on the Web, and XML support in SQL Server is evolving to meet the additional demand. Using XML, SOAP, HTTP, and SQL Server, you can now build powerful Web Services easily. To show just how simple it is with SQLXML 3.0, this article walks the reader through
Oracle Raises Its Bid For PeopleSoft
Oracle Corp. on Wednesday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. by nearly 24 percent, to $6.3 billion. Oracle said it would offer $19.50 a share in cash for all outstanding shares of PeopleSoft.
At last, UDDI moves into the spotlight
By Eric B. Parizo – To date, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) has been outshined by other Web services specifications, but thanks to a recent endorsement by OASIS and a growing need to make specific Web services easy to find, the XML-based standard is poised for a comeback.
Developing Voice XML Applications Using Microsoft.NET
by Hitesh Seth – In this fourth article in the “Spotlight on VoiceXML” series we return to our hands-on approach for developing VoiceXML applications. In Part 1 we cover the basic fundamentals of the new Microsoft .NET Framework and its components. In Part 2 we’ll apply .NET technologies, particular