IBM introduced DB2 Cube Views, new software that better prepares complex information for analysis by a large spectrum of third-party business intelligence applications, helping them perform 10% – 70% more efficiently, and enabling them to share information more easily with one another.
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Data Miner – Are You Really in the Know?
By Keith Hermiz – Without data mining, you shouldn’t bet the business on what you think you know.
IBM Ships ‘Invisible’ Database
By Lisa Vaas – IBM released DB2 Express, a no-click, quiet-as-a-mouse, self-installing version of its DB2 UDB (Universal Database) that’s aimed at small to medium-sized businesses.
In the Picture: Drawing with T-SQL
Some problems aren’t just practical; they’re also fun. SQL Server Magazine’s Itzik Ben-Gan shows you how to implement the Game of Life in T-SQL code.
SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled
Book Description – XML is one of a family of web standards for data description, validation, manipulation, and interchange. It enables the construction of application-specific data languages, which can be handled by generic tools. Its other main benefits are its platform independence, self-describin
Plain Text and XML
by Bill Venners – XML sucks because it’s being used wrongly. It is being used by people who view it as being an encapsulation of semantics and data, and it’s not. XML is purely a way of structuring files, and as such, really doesn’t add much to the overall picture. XML came from a document preparat
XUL Defines New User Interface Options
by Nigel McFarlane – XUL is a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface. Faster and cleaner than HTML, it might just be the quickest way yet to code a UI.
Data binding with JAXB
In this tutorial you learn to use data binding to easily map data stored in XML documents to Java objects and back again. You won’t have to worry about parsing XML or navigating a tree asking for child nodes and parents. You start with an XML Schema and process it into Java source files. Once you ha
Oracle Makes Bid for PeopleSoft
By Scot Petersen – Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison shocked the technology world with news that he plans to make a $5.1 billion offer to buy ERP rival Peoplesoft Inc., according to the company.
Book Review: Murach’s SQL for SQL Server
By Vyas Kondreddi – Are you a VB, Web or Windows developer? Completely new to SQL programming? Look no further! This book is just for you. “Murach’s SQL for SQL Server” is a good first book for anyone interested in learning the basics of SQL programming, and becoming a database developer, or probabl