Vonage, a provider of IP-based telephone service, said Monday it has deployed new database clusters from Oracle Corp. to better support its growing customer base.Vonage implemented Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters in six weeks, beefing up the ability of its database applications to suppor
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Microsoft adds notification services to database
Microsoft has announced the release of SQL Server Notification Services, a platform for developing and deploying database applications that enable users to subscribe to informational updates.
Moving Segments with INITIAL Extents Different to the LMT’s UNIFORM Extent Size
By Greg Johnson – So you’ve just migrated your Oracle8i databases in which all your various sized segments reside (which incidentally were stored in the single “USERS” Tablespace) and now you want to place them in appropriately sized Locally-Managed Tablespaces (LMT’s). Here is a brief guide to help
Learn the basics of object-relational data binding using Castor
A growing number of enterprise projects today call for a reliable method of binding Java objects to relational data — and doing so across a multitude of relational databases. Unfortunately (as many of us have learned the hard way) in-house solutions are painful to build and even harder to maintain
Software Testing Tool Vendors Unprepared for Web Services
While many software testing tool vendors provide rudimentary Web Services testing, very few vendors have presented plans for providing tools that will help companies test standards-based Service-oriented architectures, according to a report released today by ZapThink, LLC, an XML-focused industry an
Serve Business Graphics from Any XML Source
by Laurence Moroney – Defining data in XML and parsing it in XPath gives you considerable flexibility in presenting business data graphically. Learn how to write a chart server that creates dynamic business graphics from any XML source—in either Java or VB.NET.
Microsoft details next version of Visual Studio
By Tom Sullivan – WITH ITS FIRST iteration of Visual Studio .Net now just over six months old, Microsoft on Thursday began revealing details of the next version as well as an upgrade to the .Net Framework. As part of its strategy to make Web services pervasive throughout its entire software s
Retrieving the row for the Nth largest parametric column in a parametric table
By Eli Leiba – This piece of code returns the row corresponding to the Nth largest value for a given column name in a given table.
Performing Oracle and SQL Server database recovery
By Mark Teter – Database recovery is something that should not be tried for the first time in a disaster situation. In fact, the best recovery plan is maintaining your environment so that you never have to perform recovery. The key to this strategy is using a comprehensive availability approach. By
Oracle to publish pricing, licensing policies on internet
Oracle Corp as of next week will publish its global pricing and licensing policies on the internet in a move the corporate software maker claims is the first of its kind within the industry.