Book by Alex Kriegel and Boris M. Trukhnov – Covers the latest version of the ISO SQL standard (SQL-99) and gives readers information they need to know about the differences in vendor-specific SQL implementations including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2
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BMC Hones Data Management Tools for DB2
By Lisa Vaas – BMC Software Inc. is rolling out support for IBM DB2 Universal Database in its SmartDBA data management software family of products, the company announced at the International DB2 Users Group conference, in Las Vegas.
A Community Update
by Kendall Grant Clark – A bulletin from the XML developer community covering the growth of RELAX NG adoption, discussion on the W3C’s approach to criticism and an update on the YAML experiment.
JSR 225: XQuery API for Java
IBM and Oracle have submitted a Java Specification Request to “define a set of interfaces and classes that enable an application to submit XQuery queries to an XML data source and process the results of these queries.”
Architectural Overview of XML in the .NET Framework
This section provides an architectural overview of XML in the .NET Framework. The design goals for the XML classes in the .NET Framework are:
Regular Expression Matching in XSLT 2
by Bob DuCharme – Because XSLT is for manipulating XML documents, and XML documents are text, XSLT developers with any experience in Unix-based utilities often wish that XSLT would let them use regular expressions. XSLT 2.0 grants this wish. XPath 2.0 gives XSLT 2.0 three new functions that can take
Converting Flat-Files to XML using the XmlTextWriter
Although XML is in widespread use throughout the world now, there are still many “legacy” systems that do not know a thing about XML or how to use it. Many of these systems work with different types of flat-files that delimit data using commas, tabs, or have fixed-length fields. The keyword here is
Web services are key to future, says Microsoft
A Microsoft official stressed the importance of web services in building the future of IT at the TechEd 2003 conference in Dallas.
Oracle Closes In on ‘Unbreakable Linux’
By Peter Galli – One year to the day after announcing its Unbreakable Linux initiative, Dave Dargo, the vice president of Oracle Corp.’s Linux Program Office, took to the stage at the Enterprise Linux Forum at the Santa Clara, Calif., convention center on Friday to talk about how Oracle has achieved
Oracle Drill Down
by Jack Hakim and Tom Spitzer – Already a dominant player in data management, Oracle is on a quest to deliver the business intelligence “stack” as a tightly integrated whole. Is the sum greater than the parts for your business analysis needs?