By Brian Fonseca and Ed Scannell – MICROSOFT MOVED TO put two smoldering business problems to rest with the demise of its My Services initiative for consumers and the signing of a Web services security pact with IBM and VeriSign.The elimination of Microsoft's MyServices offering for cons
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jDefend: One Configuration File for All Your Test Scenarios
The open source jDefend test driver suite enables you to configure all your input parameters and pass them to your test driver using a single XML-based configurations file. Subbu Vedula demonstrates how jDefend can make your Java code testing quicker and simpler-and he gives you all the source code!
Privacy and XML, Part I
by Paul Madsen, Carlisle Adams – The widespread uptake of e-commerce has been stalled as much by the inability of businesses to guarantee the privacy preferences of their customers for the personal data entrusted to them as by any other single factor. Of those who are connected but do not purchase o
InCharge Institute Takes Charge of Its Own Operations With Comshare Web-Based Management Planning & Control Software
Like many organizations, InCharge had a tangled web of spreadsheets all linked together that led to inefficiencies and data integrity issues, while increasing the burden placed on the finance department. If one link was wrong, there were significant delays. Critical operational data was being pulled
SQL Server 2000 Administration Training
This KeyStone course teaches you to administer and troubleshoot information systems that incorporate the SQL Server™ 2000 Enterprise Edition. Learn how to install and configure a SQL 2000 Server, create SQL 2000 databases, manage, monitor and troubleshoot SQL 2000 databases, extract and transform da
An Exclusive Interview with Edward Whalen Co-Author of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning
by Brad M. McGehee – Learn what a SQL Server performance tuning expert has to say about performance tuning SQL Server.
SQL Server 2000 Is a CRN Channel Champion
By Barbara Darrow – WHEN IT comes to overall solution provider satisfaction with databases, a hotly contested category of late, Oracle and Microsoft shared top prize.While Microsoft bested Oracle in the technical criteria, Oracle edged out Microsoft in the channel areas. Given past allegatio
Download SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2
SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) addresses specific issues that were discovered in SQL Server 2000 since its ship date. SP2 is available for download today in nine languages.
News analysis: Oracle walking a fine line with 11i
(Ben Vigil) Oracle used last week’s AppsWorld 2002 in San Diego, Calif. to showcase its newest E-Business Suite, release 11i.Nearly every keynote address at the four-day show related to what 11i could do for customers. Mark Barrenchea, senior VP of market development, said that the principle
Ellison’s call: Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade
(Ben Heskett) Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison has a simple message for the thousands of users of the company’s business software: Upgrade. Oracle has touted the benefits of its latest set of Internet-ready business programs, called 11i, for some time. But many customers remain on the sidelin