By James Niccolai – Microsoft released two developer toolkits for building Web services on top of SQL Server 2000, its database product, and BizTalk Server, its software for tying together business applications.The releases coincide with the launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net, whic
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Append date to file name for automated jobs
(Rohit Sinha) You may be sometimes required to create flat files on a weekly or monthly basis where the name of the file must be based on the date it was created. The following script will automatically add the date to the file name. This tip has been tested on Oracle versions 6, 7 & 8i. (R)
Oracle Developer Release 2 OCP Track to be Retired
On July 31, 2002, the Oracle Certified Application Developer track for Oracle Developer Release 2 will be retired. All OCP Candidates following the Release 2 certification track will have until July 31, 2002 to complete the required core Oracle Developer exams in this track.
XML Matters: Intro to PYX
By David Mertz, Ph.D. – XML is a fairly simple format. It uses plain Unicode text rather than binary encoding, and all the structures are declared with predictable-looking tags. Nonetheless, there are still enough rules in the XML grammar that a carefully debugged parser is needed to process XML doc
Convert XML Documents into Different Formats with the XSL Template Language
By Bob Swart – XML documents contain content and definitions but little information about how you should display them (e.g., inside a browser). However, with an XML eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) template or transformation file, you can convert an XML document into a different (usually HTML-co
Reptile
Reptile is Java and XML -based distributed content syndication and management software with privacy protection from co-founders of the Jakarta Jetspeed project. The extensible architecture integrates several Web and P2P technologies to combine a Hypersonic SQL (hsql) persistent back end database wit
Connecting to non-Oracle databases using Oracle stored procedures and JDBC
This tip comes from Vishal Shah – I am sure a lot of developers have had the need to connect to some non-Oracle databases from within Oracle. Unless Oracle has a transparent gateway for your non-Oracle database, it is not a very simple task. This tip here demonstrates how to do exactly that in Oracl
Database Access Using Lightweight Applets
by Donald Bales – In last month’s article, “Dynamic Database Access from Client-side JavaScript”, we looked at an architecture for utilizing the services of an applet-servlet pair to provide dynamic database access for client-side JavaScript. There were, however, some drawbacks to this approa
XML 2.0 — Can We Get There From Here?
by Kendall Grant Clark – It seems inevitable that the W3C will eventually offer a standards document which it calls XML 2.0. The post-XML 1.0 period has seen the development of too many attendant technologies, has too often heard pleas for refactoring from the development community, and too many XML
iPlanet App Server 6.5 Hits the Street
By Amy Newman – Sun took a three-pronged approach in its enhancements for this latest version. The key new feature is the addition of iPlanet Application Framework, a new application framework for which Sun is claiming a potential ten-fold improvement in developer productivity for organizations that