Oracle Corp., the world’s largest enterprise software company, announced the world record TPC-C 32-processor clustered benchmark on Linux(1) using Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters. The new clustered world record result achieved 138,362.03 tpmC and a price performance of $17
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Instant SQL Server 2000 Applications
Book by Greg Buczek – I don’t know about you, but the way I have learned how to develop applications for the real world is to learn by example. I don’t see any point in trying to reinvent the wheel. If someone has already figured out how to do something, then I want to take advantage of that, not ha
Simple Text Wrapping
by Antoine Quint – Looking through the chapter we can see a number of appealing text features: precise text positioning, support for bidirectional text, text on a path, and so on. However, you’ll find that text wrapping is missing. Let’s see what can be done with the current set of SVG 1.0 features
UDDI: Looking Up Web Services
By RUSSELL KAY – There is Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), a standards-based system for registering Web services.
Finding the Right Formula For UDDI
By Jeffrey Schwartz – As customers start using Web services to link disparate applications, they will need a way to efficiently organize and keep track of all those Web services. Most experts believe they will do that through repositories based on a specification called universal description and dis
Microsoft to build great wall of Yukon
By Wylie Wong – The next version of SQL Server, code-named “Yukon,” will include a long list of new security-related features when it debuts in 2003, said James Hamilton, SQL Server’s design architect. He said that Microsoft’s database team spent more than a month auditing the software code for secu
Oracle to W3C: ‘You pick web services winner’
Oracle hopes to avert a battle over rival efforts to create web services standards by asking the leading oversight group to pick a winner.
Compressing files and directory structures with limited disk space
By Pankaj Gautama – Although storage capacity is growing day-by-day, there are still occasions when there still just isn’t enough. I have found this to be true especially when I need to send or archive a complete directory structure and haven’t enough disk space to perform a tar and then a compress.
How to troubleshoot full-text search problems
In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have whenyou work with full-text search. He also tells you how you can resolve these problems.
SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition Version 1.1 Service Packs
Service packs include updates and may include system administration tools, drivers, and additional components, which are conveniently bundled for easy downloading.