By John Zipperer – When Mark Jarvis, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Oracle Corp., came to speak at the Streaming Media West event (which was collocated with Internet World Spring 2002) on April 26, he came not to speak about his company’s databases or enterprise applications.
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Oracle bets on XML for 9i software
By Wylie Wong – Oracle, looking to regain market share lost to its rivals, is set to launch a new version of its flagship database software. The software maker said it plans to ship a new release of its 9i database later this week or early next week. Topping the list of new features in the re
Examining WSDL
by Rich Salz – Unlike today's Web, web services can be viewed as a set of programs interacting cross a network with no explicit human interaction involved during the transaction. In order for programs to exchange data, it's necessary to define strictly the communications protocol, the data t
SOAP Test Harness
By Craig Emilio Probus – My project team is currently developing a distributed .NET application using Web Services as a basis for a component model. Because of this intensive use of Web services, we needed to facilitate the testing process of our components for both component consumers and component
Sagent adopts Web services
By Heather Harreld – BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE VENDOR Sagent on announced support for Web services in an effort to give its customers the ability to more easily embed BI (business intelligence) into their applications and develop collaborative BI solutions leveraging data from multiple organizations.
Data-shaped SQL clauses
Since it’s introduction in ADO 2.0, data shaping has remained largely on the fringes of Visual Basic arcanum. Relegated to the back pages of musty manuals, you may have overlooked this useful aspect of ADO. If you’re not familiar with data-shaping, in essence, it lets you create recordsets within
Lawmaker: Oracle deceived California
By Alorie Gilbert – A California legislator accused Oracle and its business partner Logicon of being “part and parcel of defrauding the state of California” after he reviewed an e-mail exchange between the two companies that discussed how to handle Oracle’s pending $95 million software contract with
Enhance SQL Server Security
by Walter Myers III and David Byres – The best cure is prevention. That’s why user authentication is the cornerstone of any software security system. And it seems easy: You can authenticate users with SQL Server’s own security mechanism, typically by passing a set of security credentials in ADO code
Built-in XML: Oracle’s sales salvation?
By Wylie Wong – The software maker said it plans to ship a new release of its 9i database later this week or early next week. Topping the list of new features in the release is more fluency in XML (Extensible Markup Language), a Web standard for exchanging information that is a cornerstone of Web se
SQLXML 3.0 and .Net Leverage Web Services
by Randy Holloway – Learn how to use SQLXML 3.0 and its managed classes in .Net to extend Web services’ functionality with SQL Server.