by Peter Thiruselvam – The fastest and smartest way to learn about creating schemas with XML Spy is to follow the tutorial which accompanies the software. The tutorial on schemas is easy to understand and do, yet covers a lot of needs of a developer…
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Alliance for XML Solutions
Software AG and CALNET, a leading Information Technology and Telecom consulting firm are entering an alliance to deliver business-to-business and enterprise solutions. CALNET's enablement practice will provide joint customers with XML business frameworks based on Software AG's Tamino
Did You Know? — January 2002
By Hervé Deschamps – Tech Apps 11i, Java, RDBMS
Oracle, SAP Outlooks Lift Software Sector
By Siobhan Kennedy – Shares of Oracle jumped more than 6 percent last Wednesday, a day after the world’s No. 2 software maker made upbeat comments about the business environment and rival German giant SAP AG raised its outlook for the quarter
Oracle Announces New Certification Tiers
The new Oracle Certification Program for Oracle9i offers three distinct certification tiers. Each tier constitutes reaching a certain benchmark of experience and expertise. As you gain more skill and ability through the combined efforts of on-the-job experience and Oracle hands-on training you can g
VoiceXML Planet 2002 Conference & Expo
The first focused event of its kind, VoiceXML Planet 2002 Conference & Expo is the premier VoiceXML event for business and technology leaders who are looking for strategic, technical and market opportunities in the emerging interactive voice applications and services market.
Who Owns XML?
By Paola Di Maio – The IT industry over the last decades has been lead commercially by companies like Microsoft and Oracle, who tightly manage their kits and never even talk to people on the phone unless they are paying customers.Their respective proprietary technologies have become ‘de fact
From Excel to XML
by John E. Simpson – How do I convert Microsoft Excel data to XML?The easiest way is to use either a commercial product (such as Infoteria's iMaker for Excel — $150 for a single developer license) or any of a number of publicly-available Visual Basic/Visual Basic for Applications (VB/VB
Finding the Database OS and OS Version with Java
This tip comes from Krishna Sarabu – The following script helps you to find out the current database’s operating system & its version using java stored function(s).
Consolidating Redundant Table Data Using PL/SQL
by Anunaya Shrivastava and Steve Bobrowski – In my experience working with legacy systems, tables often store redundant data due to limitations in the system’s data model. For example, consider a file in a legacy system that stores information about the collector’s call history associated with a par