(Martin Brown) RSS is a hot topic these days, as it provides an easy way to stream data online. This article, the first of a four-part series on developing VoiceXML applications, shows you how to develop a voice-enabled RSS reader. The input to the application is RSS data, and the output is VoiceXML
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It sounded cool so I blogged it; now it might be broken
(Willie Favero) Sound cryptic enough? Actually, it’s not meant to be. Rather, this is my way of giving you a heads up about a blog entry from last month (July 21, 2007). That post described the ODBC related APAR PK15288 that closed ( “Are you running ODBC applications? Then here’s a nice APAR for yo
Learning Oracle ADF: Simple JSF data view/entry form
(Rex Baldazo) This second post in my Learning Oracle ADF series is a little late. Because I’ve not been able to get my data entry form to work quite right. It works fine as a data navigator form, but creating new entries isn’t working yet. I figured rather than delay any longer, I’d share what I hav
Importing a full database…
(Amardeep Sidhu) Many times, we are required to restore a database from a export dmp file. Its a simple task but sometimes there are some issues left like invalid objects or some objects missing, in the newly created database. Following steps, followed in order can help in creating an error free dat
Oracle Olap 11g – First Impressions
(Venkatakrishnan J) I just managed to install Oracle 11g on one of our crash and burn servers here. Well, to be honest I was impressed with what I saw. No glitches in installation at all. It has been sometime since I last managed to do that. One of the main reasons why I installed 11g was to test ou
Error message when you try to connect to an instance of SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services by using Decision Support Objects: ‘Data source name not found or no default data source’
When you try to connect to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services by using Decision Support Objects (DSO), you receive the following error message: [ODBC Error]Data source name not found or no default data source.
Comparing DB2 materialized query tables and Oracle materialized views
(Burt L. Vialpando and Vikram S. Khatri) In DB2, a materialized query table (MQT) is a table whose definition is based on the result of a query. As such, the MQT typically contains precomputed results based on the data existing in the table or tables that its definition is based on. If the query com
Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part 6
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) This installment of the article series illustrates how to use PowerShell and PowerShell script to backup databases, etc.
BI Has Left the Building
(David O’Connell) Mobile business intelligence (BI) was a long time coming, but it’s finally here and people are using it. Although it has been around for a long time in the form of alerts and emails, it was fairly crude. Information flowed in one direction – to the mobile user – and there was littl
Serialization with .NET
(Peyton McCullough) Initializing and manipulating objects in a program is fairly straightforward, but in some situations, this isn’t enough. Rather than just being used and discarded, it’s sometimes necessary for an object to be preserved for later use. It’s also sometimes necessary for objects to b