By John Taschek – Ellison, commenting on Oracle’s renewed interest in outsourcing, said the time is right for hosted applications, especially those based on Oracle’s E-Business Suite 11i. Instead of concentrating on the applications, Ellison chose to focus on costs.
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Oracle sweetens 11i upgrade with fixed costs
(Gareth Morgan) Oracle has revealed plans to woo customers who are yet to upgrade to its 11i applications by offering predictable management and support costs.
Microsoft patches SQL Server 2000 database
By Martin LaMonica – Microsoft Monday released enhancements to its SQL Server 2000 database to fix security holes and improve administration.
Horizontally Partitioned Merge Publications
Data that seems to “disappear” has been a problem since the release of merge replication in SQL Server 7.0. Merge replication gives you the ability to process a transaction on a subscriber database and have the data propagate back to the publisher database. Such reverse propagation presents a unique
Introduction to XFML
by Peter Van Dijck – XFML is a simple XML format for exchanging metadata in the form of faceted hierarchies, sometimes called taxonomies. Its basic building blocks are topics, also called categories. XFML won’t solve all your metadata needs. It’s focused on interchanging faceted classification and i
Tip: Flexible DTDs with parameter entities
By Brett McLaughlin – In this tip, Brett defines parameter entities and shows you how they’re used. You will learn how to construct parameter entities and use them in your XML DTDs.
Securing Web Services
by Rich Salz – According to the conventional wisdom, web services will not be successful until they’re “secure.” Without discussing the accuracy of the claim, let’s look at what it means. In the web services context security means that a message recipient will be able to do some or all of the follow
XML in Java: Data Binding, Part 1: Code generation approaches – JAXB and more
Enterprise Java expert Dennis Sosnoski looks at several XML data binding approaches using code generation from W3C XML Schema or DTD grammars for XML documents. He starts out with the long-awaited JAXB standard now nearing release through the Java Community Process (JCP), then summarizes some of the
XML Signature and Encryption Standards Beg Issues
Regarding "Make Your XML Secure," by Jason Bock [.NET Magazine, November 2002]: Making applications secure is a lot more trouble than learning how to encrypt a section of XML. The XML Signature and XML Encryption standards are useful to be sure, but they beg several troubling issues.
Write a Message to the Alert Log
by Marco Gilbert – If you want to write a message to the alert log, you can use the undocumented KSDWRT procedure of the DBMS_SYSTEM package.