By Robert Welgan – IBM says the new multidimensional clustering feature in DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix, and Windows will speed complex queries. And they put the new feature to the test. Here’s what tests revealed about when MDC really helps (and why).
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ViaSQL for S/390
ViaSQL lets you easily integrate S/390 data into XML applications. ViaSQL provides SQL to access mainframe data sources like VSAM, IMS, DB2, Datacom, and others, and allows the result sets to be returned in XML format.
SQL Server Magazine Announces Innovator Awards
Have you scaled out a system with SQL Server 2000’s federated database support or implemented OLAP or data mining to give decision makers the power to analyze data? Have you used SQL Server’s XML functionality to develop Web services and platform-independent applications. SQL Server DBAs and develop
XSLT 2 and Delimited Lists
by Bob DuCharme – As part of his work as the editor of the XSLT 2.0 specification, Michael Kay has been prototyping the new features of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 in a separate development branch of his well-known Saxon XSLT processor. As I write this, his most recent prototype release is 7.4. (His reco
Programming Microsoft® .NET XML Web Services
With this guide, the authors set an ambitious course to help professional programmers understand the architecture of XML Web services and implement the right solutions by creating and consuming best-of-breed XML Web services.
W3C cleans up SOAP 1.2 spec
By Scarlet Pruitt – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the proposed recommendation for the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) 1.2 specification Wednesday, saying that the protocol is cleaned up and in a strong position for final review.
Sun, Oracle meet on Web services
By Martin LaMonica – Sun Microsystems and Oracle plan to attend the first meeting to discuss a proposed Web services standard, despite their support of a rival specification.
Oracle Update in the Wings
By Lisa Vaas – Database administrators committed to Oracle Corp.’s namesake database gathered last week at the International Oracle User Group conference in Orlando, Fla., and discussed the impending beta release of the company’s next big database upgrade.
Securing SQL Server
By Brian Moran – In the aftermath of the Slammer worm, Microsoft Vice President of SQL Server Gordon Mangione explores why customers aren’t applying patches, shares how Microsoft plans to solve these problems, and looks to the future of security for SQL Server.
SQL Server for CE 2000 and RDA with eVB
This application collects data in a SQL Server 2000 CE database on the PocketPC. When connectivity becomes available, the eVB application pushes new records from the local SQL database to the server.