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Web Services Acronyms, Demystified
by Pavel Kulchenko – In many cultures, the end of the year is a time for review and contemplation. Most of my work is related to Web services, and it should come as no surprise that I would like to take a look at the latest developments in that field. More than twenty acronyms related to Web service
Real-world XML Schema
By Paul Golick – This article presents a set of 17 broadly applicable practices for using XML. These practices were published by the Association for Retail Technology Standards to aid its development of standardized XML messages for exchange between information technology systems that support retail
Performance testing SOAP-based applications
SOAP is a boon in the quest for interoperability between servers — but it is still a challenge to deliver SOAP-based solutions which perform well in production environments. Frank Cohen offers tips on overcoming scalability problems, and introduces a free open-source utility to proof performance in
Don’t Let Referential Integrity Degrade Your Database Performance
By Boris Milrud – Oracle databases provide a powerful mechanism for enforcing business rules, called referential integrity (RI), which is implemented either via a declaration of foreign key (FK) constraints (“declarative RI”) or via triggers. It is almost impossible to find an Oracle database with n
Power Partitioning Made Easy
By Eric Yen – Oracle9i’s new list-partitioning feature lets you organize large data sets more naturally, usefully, and easily.So, let’s step through our examples and get going. You can simply read along, or—if you have Oracle9i up and running and your user account has Create Table privileges
An Introduction to the XML:DB API
by Kimbro Staken – In my last article, Introduction to dbXML, I provided an example that used the XML:DB API to access the dbXML server. This time around we'll take a more detailed look at the XML:DB API in order to get a better feel for what the API is about and how it can help you build applic
Fat protocols slow Web services
Last time around, I told you that if you wanted to support Web services you could look forward to upgrading your old servers and adding new ones. And, indeed, that will go a long way to making Web services fast enough to keep your users happy. But that's only part of the story.
XML database doubts
By Timothy Dyck – As XML becomes an increasingly important data interchange format, it makes sense to look at new ways of storing information directly in XML and using XML-based tools for data query and manipulation. However, what those tools will look like is still very much up in the air.
Learning Oracle PL/SQL? Here’s What to Expect
by Bill Pribyl – To help prepare a newcomer into the world of PL/SQL, I have collected some thoughts about the way that most new users seem to react to the language.