By JORIS EVERS – Microsoft Corp. released three software patches rated “critical” and a fourth rated “moderate.” The patches plug holes in Internet Explorer, Windows XP, SQL Server 2000 and Commerce Server 2000.
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Accenture, Tibco partner for Oracle apps services
By Juan Carlos Perez – The alliance’s first offering includes Accenture services and Tibco software and targets users wanting to integrate Oracle’s Oracle 11i enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications with non-Oracle ERP applications, including those from SAP AG, PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems.
‘Yukon’ to Add Run-Time, XML Support
Microsoft Corp. is bringing its next SQL Server release, code-named Yukon, in line with its .Net and Web services vision, with new data unification and integration technology. Microsoft plans to embed .Net CLR (Common Language Runtime) in the SQL engine, as well as provide deeper and richer XML su
Beyond W3C XML Schemas
by Will Provost – The XML developer who needs to validate documents as part of application flow may choose to begin by writing W3C XML Schema for those documents. This is natural enough, but W3C XML Schema is only one part of the validation story. In this article, we will discover a multiple-stage v
Jump-starting knowledge management with RDF
Uche Ogbuji moves on to a discussion of a far more sophisticated RDF query language than the primitive API he has discussed thus far. This is the foundation for establishing the middleware for the Issue Tracker article in coming installments.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC
The Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Driver for JDBC™ is a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides highly scalable and reliable connectivity for the enterprise Java™ environment. This driver provides JDBC access to SQL Server 2000 through any Java-enabled applet, application, or application server.
How to Implement SQL Server Log Shipping Using Visual Basic
by Dean Thompson – Log Shipping is a Disaster Recovery (DR) tool that provides you the ability to have a readily available “warm backup.” Essentially, should your existing system fail, you have a backup SQL Server and database available to take over with relatively up-to-date information. If your da
Microsoft offers free tool for security checks
By Matt Berger – DEEP IN THE midst of an effort to beef up the security of its software, Microsoft Monday made available a free tool designed to search out security vulnerabilities hiding in Windows-based computers.Called the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), the tool is intended
Oracle ending Express OLAP engine
Paul Krill – WHEN ORACLE SHIPS the upcoming upgrade to its database, designated Oracle9i Release 2, in May, it will mark the end of the Oracle Express OLAP (online analytical processing) product line and the dawn of an offering more tightly integrated with the main database.
Managing Oracle9i
By Liz Cully with Tom Haunert – Is Oracle9i Database more powerful than Oracle8i? Absolutely. It’s also easier to use. “We got a massive amount of input from DBAs on the most tedious, time-consuming tasks they have to do,” says Valerie Kane, a group manager in Oracle’s Server Division, “and we used