Since its emergence in the mid-1980s, digital music has seen plenty of controversy, and even the management of digital music metadata has been subject to its own share of drama. But sometimes out of political dust-ups, good technical solutions emerge. In this article, Uche Ogbuji introduces MusicBra
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Making Sense of Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME)
by Matt Long – DIME addresses the difficulties involved in embedding binary data into XML documents. DIME is a specification submitted by Microsoft and IBM to IETF, and it defines a lightweight, binary message format that can be used to encapsulate one or more application-defined payloads of arbitra
XHTML is the best wireless dev tool
By Puneet Gupta – The focus for much of wireless development so far has been on wireless Internet technologies like WAP 1.x and Wireless Markup Language (WML), which present content to the mobile users adhering to the bandwidth and memory limitations of mobile devices.
Oracle Touts Linux Support
By Lisa Vaas – Oracle Corp. Vice President of Marketing Rene Bonvanie opened the Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo 2002 by demonstrating a simulation of an "unbreakable" eight-node cluster running the company’s Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Cluster) technology on top of Linux.
At Oracle, Simplicity Rules All
By Jane Black and Olga Kharif – Integrating data within heterogeneous systems is a task that that large software vendors are tackling, as clients demand simpler solutions for more complex environments. This case study looks at how Oracle made life easier for one CTO, and examines the way major ERP p
Automating SQL Server Management with WMI (Part 2)
Marcin Policht’s latest article in the ‘SQL Server Management with WMI’ series continues a discussion on using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) for managing SQL Server and includes sample scripts for several SQL Server and database maintenance tasks.
True DBA Blooper #8: Cleaning up disk drive mess
By Ellen O’Brien – Experienced DBA Peter Gooley had to dig deep in his memory archives to come up with his favorite blunders, mistakes that make him laugh today, but were not so funny then. He shared his two blunders, one that started as a mystery and another that began with bored DBAs playing silly
Microsoft Preps Next-Gen Database Beta Release
By Barbara Darrow – Microsoft is zeroing in on dates for the beta release of its next-generation SQL Server database, code-named Yukon.The company is working to provide 1,500 customers and partners with the Yukon beta code by February or March, development team members told one analyst.
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Autonomous and Distributed Transactions in Oracle 8i/9i
This article presents a basic introduction to transaction processing in PL/SQL and primarily focuses on the Autonomous transaction processing feature of PL/SQL and the changes that have occurred from Oracle 8i to 9i.