(Michael M David) Unstructured and XML semi-structured data is now used more than structured data. Unstructured data is useful because of its fuzzy processing applied to this more common ubiquitous data.
Other News
Paperless operation, time-based XML, content authentication etc.
(Sean McGrath) Great stuff from Tom Bruce testifying before Congress.
The Semantic Web And The Search For Meaning
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are teaming up to create schema.org and add meaning to the web not just search. Schema is; “a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers”. Source: Schema.
Silent MyISAM Table Definition Changes and mysqldump
(Singer Wang) The other day while trying to move a schema from one MySQL server to another, I encountered a very odd issue. The schema to be moved contained both MyISAM and InnoDB tables, so the only option I had was to dump the schema using mysqldump on the source server and import it on the destin
Dealing with corruption in an IOT: the practical hands-on approach
(Luis Moreno Campos) If you find yourself with a corrupted block in an Oracle database you should go immediately to My Oracle Support (MOS) and read note 1088018.1. There you will find the appropriate MOS notes you should read if your problem is related to table, index, or LOB corruption.
Three tips for SQL Server upgrade, migration
(Don Jones) It’s funny. Most organizations I work with would prefer to have all their infrastructure and platform components on a single software release: one version of Windows for domain controllers or one version of Exchange Server for messaging, for example. When it comes to Microsoft SQL Server
Managing SQL Database Objects
(Arie D. Jones, Ron D. Plew and Ryan Stephens) In this chapter you will learn about database objects: what they are, how they act, how they are stored, and how they relate to one another.
Push Data to the Client using WCF CallBack Service
(Mahesh Sabnis) Many a times, the requirement demands that the WCF Service pushes data to the application that is consuming it, over the session established between client application and the WCF service. This mechanism can be termed as Callback. WCF actively supports callback to its client, over th
WCF and Service-Oriented Architectures
(Peter Vogel) If you want to exploit service-oriented architecture (SOA) and services, you’re going to have to go beyond just Web services. Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provide a comprehensive set of tools that reduces the barriers t
ColdFusion Query-Of-Queries vs. The Group Attribute In CFOutput
(Ben Nadel) ColdFusion has two primary tags that allow for explicit iteration over a query: CFOutput and CFLoop. While I appreciate that CFOutput allows for query iteration, I’ve pretty much never used it to that extent.