The Apache Jakarta Project has released version 1.5Beta2 of its cross-platform Java- and XML-based build tool, Ant.
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Startup bets on XML for integration
By Carolyn A. April – STARTUP ENOSYS SOFTWARE officially launches on Monday, rolling out a suite of data integration software that company officials claim features the first commercially available engine based on the XQuery standard.
.NET Data Access Architecture Guide
This document provides guidelines for implementing an ADO.NET-based data access layer in a multi-tier .NET application. It focuses on a range of common data access tasks and scenarios and presents guidance to help you choose the most appropriate approaches and techniques.
Implementing row level security in SQL Server databases
By Vyas Kondreddi – There is lack of information on this topic of “Implementing security at row level”. So, I decided to propose a solution for this issue through this article. I hope it gives you a head start, if you are planning to implement row level security.
Tuning the database cache hit ratio
By Gatot Rubianto – You need to tune the database cache hit ratio if: the gethitratio on the library cache is > 90% the pinhitratio on the library cache is < 1% the get hit ratio on the dictionary cache is < 15% Use this simple script to measure the cache hit ratio:
Mudslinging escalates in Oracle deal
By Dawn Kawamoto – The war of words escalated Monday between database giant Oracle and a California legislator leading an investigation into a controversial $95 million state contract, with back-to-back news conferences and a flurry of exchanged letters.
Getting down from the tree
XML has developed a tree-centric vision of the documents which is insufficient for some applications. Patrick Durusau urged us at XML Europe 2002 to "get down from our trees" and explore "Concurrent Markup for XML Documents", a XML based technique to define several intermixed tree st
XML Converter
The XML Converter is a data converting software lets the user to interactively create a data transformation. It allows you to use XML documents by exporting source data into XML file. XML Converter is a visual mapping and conversion tool, which manages all dialects of XML such as DTD(document type d
Reading and Writing XML using Perl
XML is a structured, predictable, and standard data storage format, and as such carries a price. Unlike the line-by-line, make-it-up-as-you-go style that typifies text hacking in Perl, XML expects you to learn the rules of its game–the structures and protocols, before you can play with it. Fortunat
Upgrading from SQL Server 7 to 2000 (Part 2)
By AjarnMark from SQLTeam – In Part 1, I introduced the basic options for upsizing a SQL Server from version 7.0 to 2000. One important part of that article was the list of what has to be moved. Here in part 2, I will take that list and explain how I accomplished all of this on 53 separate databases