by Hitesh Seth – This column focuses on VoiceXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language), an emerging standard (defined by VoiceXML Forum, submitted to the W3C Voice Browser Activity Group) for the development of interactive voice-based applications. It’s one of the first standards that opens up the form
Author: SSWUG Research
Study: Oracle9i Tops IBM’s DB2 in Manageability
By Lisa Vaas – IOUG Live! conference attendees last Monday were greeted with two pieces of good news: that Hewlett-Packard Co. is chopping an incremental 20 percent off of hardware when customers purchase Oracle Corp. software with HP hardware, and that Oracle’s Oracle9i database is easier to use th
Finding the Maximum Increment Allowed
by Marco Gilbert – Changing the increment by clause of a sequence that cycles and uses cache can produce the following error: “ORA-04013: number to CACHE must be less than one cycle” The following command helps you prevent this error. This SQL command will return the maximum incremen
Letters, May 2003
From Sql Server Magazine – Readers ask why so many SQL Servers were connected to the Internet–where they were vulnerable to Slammer, whether linked servers work for Oracle running on Solaris, and comment on choosing a .NET language.
Open the Mainframe Mine
(Joe McKendrick) IBM estimates that about 70 percent of the world’s data resides on mainframes. That means there are more terabytes of data sitting in DB2 and IMS database files – storing years of customer and supplier history, transactions, and market data – than in all other databases combined.
Managing Char Values in SQL Server 2000, 7.0, and 6.x
Do SQL Server 2000, 7.0, and 6.x manage char values differently? If so, can I compensate for this difference by using the appropriate database compatibility level?
Using XML Bulk Load to Load ADO-Generated XML Data
Rich Rollman of SQL Server Magazine answers a reader’s query about using XML Bulk Load to upload ADO-generated XML data that includes date fields, prescribing a mapping schema that translates ADO’s ISO8601 format for dates.
IBM takes integration from Garlic to DB2 II
By Ellen O’Brien – As the researcher credited with driving IBM Corp.’s federated database technology, engineer Laura Haas has led data management projects from the Garlic project to DiscoveryLink and, most recently, to the DB2 Information Integrator (DB2 II). She spoke with SearchDatabase.com about
Administrative Products for DB2 for OS/390 – Extending the Power of DB2
The purpose of this paper is to describe the Version 7.1 release of the BMC Software administrative Products for DB2 for OS/390. We will highlight the features that are supported in Version 7 of the IBM DATABASE2™ Universal Database Server for OS/390 and z/OS, and explain how the BMC Software Databa
Web-based XML Editing with W3C XML Schema and XSLT
by Ali Mesbah – W3C XML Schema (WXS) is an XML language for describing and constraining the content of XML documents. Using WXS to validate XML instance documents has become a common practice. Using a schema we can also go the other way around: create or edit a valid XML instance document using the