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Database Vendors Embrace 64-Bit

By Lisa Vaas – Database vendors are all over 64-bit. Oracle Corp. and Computer Associates International Inc. on Tuesday embraced Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s release of its new 64-bit Opteron chip, with each company separately announcing support for the 64-bit architecture in their flagship databas

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XML Grows… and Slows

by Jim Ericson – XML standards and specifications are more and more coming to bear on a variety of business processes inside and outside the four walls in support of new architectures that are flexible and loosely coupled. XML-based messaging in the form of Web services will dominate deployment of n

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Ready for Prime Time

Three and a half years of development work by some 5,000 Microsoft Corp. staff will culminate this Thursday in the launch of the Windows Server 2003 family of products at an event in San Francisco. Amid the flurry of final engineering work, Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Window

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Random number between two integers

By Siva Val – Though Oracle provides an internal function to generate random numbers, there is no function that gives a random number between any two given integers. Sometimes this is needed to pull random data for test cases. The following function generates a random number between any given two in