From SQL Power Tools – The demand for global access to corporate information from eCommerce and data warehousing applications will be ever increasing in the years 2000+. Data and application usage patterns exposed by the eData Usage Analyzer reveal how end-users interact with data. The eData Usag
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Smarter Data Warehouses
by Joy Mundy – Few queries and reports perform any calculation fancier than summing or counting, with the occasional ratio thrown in for excitement. Query and reporting tool vendors have done an excellent job of making the simple things easy. They do a nice job of providing functionality that is mis
X-Hive/DB 1.1 revealed
X-Hive Corporation has announced X-Hive/DB 1.1, a persistent DOM implementation built on top of the Objectivity object oriented database.
The State of XML: Why Individuals Matter
by Edd Dumbill – This article is adapted from the closing keynote speech I delivered at XML Europe 2001 in Berlin, May 2001. I describe the progress of XML over the last year, emphasizing that in an industry increasingly dominated by large vendors, individual contributors are still key.
Tame Web Application Development
By Piroz Mohseni – I'm going to write about a platform-independent, server-side, interpretive programming language with full integration with XML. And if you thought that is just another name for Java, think again. This new programming language is called TAME (Tag-Activated Markup Enhancer) avai
Return of the BLOB
When you're designing and programming databases, images and audio or video clips probably aren't among the first things that you consider storing. However, today's databases often need to store employee photos, product pictures, and the like. Even the ability to play on-demand video clip
Practical SQL: The Sequel
From SQL-Server-Performance.com – This book is really interesting, and a bit different from most of the SQL language "how-to" books that I have read in the past. In fact, the book is somewhat hard to describe. Essentially, the book teaches you how to code SQL for the "real world". No
DIDL: Packaging Digital Content
In this article we detail the reasons for undertaking the development of a digital packaging standard and describe in depth a package manifest scheme that potentially addresses the enumerated needs. In doing so, we show how such a scheme effectively disassociates the notion of content item from indi
RDF and Topic Maps, so similar and so different!
By Eric van der Vlist – Graham Moore presented "RDF and Topic Maps: An Exercise in Convergence" (pdf), a demonstration that Topic Maps can be modeled in RDF and RDF can be modeled as Topic Maps, along with a proposal to define a metadata-based mapping to transition between the two languages.
Getting started with XSLTC
By Piroz MohseniCheck out the ability to compile XSLT. Learn about XSLTC and translets as well!