By Paul Festa – The Web’s leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization’s push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.
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Listen Software Solutions’ “How To” Series: Dynamic SQL
By David Nishimoto – The DBMS_SQL package can be helpful for executing dynamic SQL. Dynamic SQL can be either a DML (Dynamic Manipulation Language: select,insert,update,delete) or DDL (Data Definition Language: create table, create index, or create view).
Processor Performance
by Joe Chang – Learn how a server’s CPU can affects its performance.
XML Canonicalization, Part 2
by Bilal Siddiqui – In this second and final installment, I’ll take the concept further and explain the canonicalization requirements of CDATA sections, processing instructions, comments, external entity references and XML document subsets.
HOWTO: Retrieve XML Data with an XPath Query in an ASP Client
This article demonstrates how to retrieve an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) data stream from a SQL Server 2000 mapping schema by using an XPath query for an Active Server Pages (ASP) client.The sample also allows you to test XPath queries against the mapping schema. Two methods are used to
Duplicate and Empty Elements
by Bob DuCharme – Any manipulation of XML documents, whether with XSLT or not, often involves cleaning up the documents. Perhaps some company sends XML data to your company, and while it may be valid XML, it still needs to be beaten into shape a bit before your systems can use it.Dealing wit
XML for Data: What’s new in XPath 2.0?
Kevin Williams takes a look at the latest status of the XPath 2.0 specifications and provides some specific examples of XPath 2.0 features that will make the XML developer’s life easier. Examples are provided in XML and XPath.
Dynamic SVG: Graphic Interactivity in a Browser?
by Nigel McFarlane – Go beyond simple point-and-click interactivity in your Web pages and see how dynamic SVG provides new ways for users to supply input. Download the Adobe SVG Plugin and then try the sample now.
Determining transactions per second
By Cory Brooks – When asked how many transactions per second were happening on each system, I realized that a quick approximation could be derived from the number of SCN changes per second as recorded in the logs, so I wrote the following code.
Software Fixes Oracle Database Problems Through Log Analysis
By Tom Smith – Lumigent Technologies Inc. on Monday detailed Log Explorer for Oracle, software that identifies causes of data corruption and is used to recover critical business data by enterprises using Oracle databases.