by Alexander Chigrik – Learn how to troubleshoot common full-text search problems.
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Oracle Goes XML
By Timothy Dyck – Oracle Corp. is the first among the big relational database vendors to make major changes to its database in response to XML, shaking up the generally overpriced and underperforming native XML database market something fierce but having a lesser effect on current Oracle database si
The Guru’s Guide to Transact-SQL
Book by Ken Henderson – Information, explanations, and advice you need to master Transact-SQL and develop the best possible Transact-SQL code. Covers Microsoft Transact-SQL. Softcover. CD-ROM included. Check it out and see some sample pages.
Bmc Introduces Oracle Database Storage and Recovery Software
By Kevin Reichard – BMC Software has announced the release of Patrol Recovery for Oracle, a network-storage application that centralizes management of Oracle-database backup and recovery functions across the network. It’s designed for Oracle database administrators (DBAs) who want to manage multiple
Certification Watch: Microsoft To Retire 10 Exams Next June
By Anne Martinez – Microsoft recently announced plans to discontinue 10 of its certification exams on June 30, 2003. The retired exams cover Site Server 3.0; Exchange Server 5.5; SNA Server 4.0; Proxy Server 2.0; Windows 98; Designing and Implementing Solutions with Microsoft Office 2000; Microsoft
Treebeard XSLT IDE 0.1.8 released at SourceForge
Rob Rohan has released version 0.1.8 of the Treebeard XSLT IDE on SourceForge. New features in this release include an updated user inteface and the latest Apache XSLT engine.
Adventures in high-performance XML persistence, Part 1
By Cameron Laird – XML storage is too sprawling a topic to offer easy answers. There’s no one fastest XML database, nor fastest XML processing language. Still, it’s helpful to understand the basic concepts of XML persistence so you can apply them to your specific situation. This article begins a new
XML, Part 1: XML and Namespaces
By Heath Stewart – I’m sure by now that you’ve heard a lot about XML and about how great it is. You might be wondering, though, what is XML? In part 1 on this series on XML tutorials, beginning and intermediate users will learn the answer to that question, along with what namespaces are and how XML
Java Performance Tuning
Book By Jack Shirazi – No matter what language they’re programming in, developers always wish things would run faster! Especially when writing mission-critical applications, no one wants to be limited by the programming environment. Java Performance Tuning provides all the details you need to
How to troubleshoot orphan users in SQL Server databases?
By Vyas Kondreddi – This article explains how orphan users get created, and provides you with troubleshooting information. A bonus stored procedure called ShowOrphanUsers is included, that goes and searches all the databases and generates a complete list of orphan users.