(Henril Olsson) The first use of an XML DataSource that might come to mind is reading XML files from the file system. While that might be useful at times, I think that response processing is where the XML DataSource really shines.
Other News
Javascript – Traversing the HTML DOM recursively
(Swapnil Sarwe) This post will give idea about HTML DOM Objects and way we can use its methods and attributes to navigate or traverse through it.
Tuning Oracle to Make a Query Slower
(Kerry Osborne) I had an interesting little project this morning. Of course it takes longer to write it down than to do actually do it, but it was kind of interesting and since I haven’t done a post in quite some time (and it’s the day before Thanksgiving, so it’s pretty quite at the office anyway)
WFG – mode 5 TM deadlock
(Dominic Brooks) Just a brief note to preserve some observations on a deadlock situation reported a while back on the OTN forums.
Restarting a Duplicate Process From a VERY Failed State
(Kellyn Pot’Vin) As part of an 11g Upgrade, it was found that a database environment could be built from one of the upgraded databases through a duplicate. As this process had never been performed before in this fashion, a test was in order.
Administrating SQL Server Reporting Services – Planning, Documenting and Troubleshooting
(Feodor Georgiev) This article touches on three important aspects of the task of administrating SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS): Planning, documenting and troubleshooting.
All the news: DB2 Express-C with PL/SQL, new TPoX version, DS 3.1, and hello to all PMs
(Henrik Loeser) I am in between business trips and there is not much time for looking deeper into any specific problems. But I wanted to touch base on few things that are new:
Rails and Database Session Variables
(Mike Taluc) Ruby’s ActiveRecord provides a very robust means of manipulating database table structures especially in the context of automated deployments such as Capistrano.
IBM is Baking NoSQL Capabilities into DB2 and Informix
(Conor O’Mahony) IBM recently revealed its plan to integrate certain NoSQL capabilities into IBM DB2 and Informix. In particular, it is working to integrate graph store and key:value store capabilities into the flagship IBM database products. IBM is not yet indicating when these new capabilities wil
SQL Server 2012: Sometimes Partial Is Preferable
(Denny Cherry) Partially contained databases resolve some of the major consolidation and migration issues that have been around SQL Server databases since SQL Server version 4.2. Thankfully, this will be one of the many new features being introduced in SQL Server 2012.