By Lisa Vaas – IBM’s Tivoli Risk Manager now automatically monitors and protects all the big databases from security threats, malicious users and other vulnerabilities, the company announced Tuesday.Tivoli Risk Manager 4.1 now supports IBM’s own DB2 Universal Database, Oracle Corp.’s 8i and
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PeopleSoft Board Rejects Oracle Bid
By Antone Gonsalves – PeopleSoft Inc. said Thursday its board of directors has rejected Oracle Corp.’s takeover bid. The board voted unanimously to recommend that stockholders turndown Oracle’s unsolicited cash offer of $16 per share, or $5.1 billion.
Oracle Chairman Vows A Continued Fight For PeopleSoft
By Barbara Darrow and Steven Burke – Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison used his company’s fourth-quarter earnings call to reiterate his intention to buy PeopleSoft from its shareholders. Ellison posited his company’s hostile bid for PeopleSoft as something of a rescue mission for PeopleSoft share
Saving data into XML files and retrieving into form controls
by J.V.Ravichandran – A DataSet represents storage of data for efficient manipulation of data for an application. A dataset can contain multiple tables of results. The tables in a dataset can represent data from many different sources (for example, from databases, from XML files, spreadsheets, and s
Tell a parser where to find a schema
by Benoît Marchal – This tip shows you how to implement robust document validation with XML schema and JAXP 1.2. Examples are included for SAX and DOM parsers.
Installing SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition
This article guides you through the steps of installing SQL Server 2000 for Windows CE.
Creating a Web Service with SQLXML 3.0
Convert your stored procedures to Web services in SQLXML with instruction from this SQL Server Magazine article by Rich Rollman.
SQL Server 2000 SP3a Available for Download
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a (SP3a) to address specific issues discovered in SQL Server 2000 since its ship date. Because SQL Server service packs are cumulative, SP3a includes all fixes from SP1, SP2, and SP3. However, if you’ve applied SP3, Microsoft says you don’t need t
Multiple sorts without using dynamic SQL
By Jim Haire – Have you ever wanted the order of your data sorted differently based on some condition? You could do it by coding multiple cursors or creating dynamic SQL. Here is a way to do it with static SQL and only one cursor.
New DB2 UDB Fastpath DBA course for V8
Are you an experienced relational database administrator who’d like to learn DB2? Then this updated self-study course is for you — at no charge. The DB2 Universal Database Administration Fastpath course helps experienced database administrators gain DB2 UDB V8.1 skills quickly and easily.