(Martin Brown) Both mashups and Ajax are now firmly entrenched in the Web landscape. Put them together and you have the makings for Rich Web applications. This article explains the Rich Web Application Backplane, currently a W3C Note, which is designed to bring standardization to the field, proving
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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’
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Oracle Database 11g Release 1 New Features Summary, Part 2
(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11gR1) was launched in mid-July 2007. This article – the second in this two-part series – takes some tantalizing glimpses into the upcoming improvements to database performance and database management that expand even further the revolutionary concepts
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Integrating Oracle Spatial with Google Earth
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(Vikram Vaswani) If you’ve done any open-source database development recently, you probably already know that when it comes to selecting a database for your application, you have a plethora of choices. You are no longer limited to commercial products such as Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle; open-sour
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