By Ellen O’Brien – Taking on new, competitive territory, IBM Corp. unveiled DB2 Information Integrator software, which is designed to deal with data stored in products from competing vendors and various sources.
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Microsoft Struggles To Get Yukon Beta Out The Door
By Barbara Darrow – The clock is ticking on Yukon. Microsoft has promised the first real beta of its next-generation database for the first half of the year. Depending on how first half is defined, that gives the company just over a month. Company sources said the push is on internally to del
Issues with Implementing UNICODE for DB2 in UNIX ODBC
Issues with Implementing UNICODE for DB2 in UNIX ODBC; Think you can get UNICODE support from IBM’s DB2 ODBC driver on UNIX? Nope. Learn more.
New IBM eServer p690 adds on-demand features
By Peter Williams – IBM has refreshed its eServer pSeries AIX (Unix) server range with faster Power4+ processors and on-demand features. IBM also plans to offer applications such as its DB2 database and Tivoli management software on-demand in the autumn. These will be priced by the day, when
Compare XML Data Access APIs
by Greg Ewing and Jon Rauschenberger – The .NET Framework includes several new data access APIs, each of which has varying levels of support for accessing data residing in SQL Server as XML. Selecting the right API for your needs can make a big difference in how your solutions perform and how much c
The comparison of SQL Server 2000 with Access 2000
Often people in newsgroups ask about some comparison of Access and SQL Server databases. In this article, Alexander Chigrik shows you the differences.
Converting from SAX
Brett McLaughlin explains how to use SAX to communicate with applications that require DOM and JDOM inputs. It’s a useful technique: With the flurry of XML APIs available, developers now have to be able to easily move from one to another, and then on to another. The sample code provides a concrete e
Make XML More Readable
by Dan Wahlin – Need to format XML to make it more readable? Use the .NET platform’s XmlTextWriter class to accomplish the task with a minimal amount of work.
Oracle to Offer Single View Into Its OEM
By Lisa Vaas – Oracle Corp.’s plan to offer a single-browser-based view in its Oracle Enterprise Manager is being greeted with glee by users, particularly in light of a major Oracle database vulnerability discovered last week.
Oracle database users’ interest in Linux grows
By Marc L. Songini – Despite the relative newness of corporate applications running on Linux, attendees at an Oracle database user conference said a growing number of companies are evaluating or moving into production with database servers running the open-source operating system.