(Mahesh Chand) Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 (WSS) exposes its functionality using a Web Service interface, which has sixteen Web services and each of these services exposes different functionality such as security groups and users, user permissions, documents and imaging, lists, alerts, meetings, s
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(Tony Patton) One of the more popular trends to fall under the Web 2.0 umbrella is the creation of Web applications called mashups. Mashups draw upon existing Web applications or data sources and combine these resources to create a new application. I examine the technologies behind mashups, the arch
Oracle Data Integrator aims for ‘pervasive BI’
(Mark Brunelli) Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), the first major upgrade of Sunopsis Inc. software since Oracle purchased the Limonest, France-based data integration vendor last year. (R)
SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard
(Tibor Karaszi) The SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard (DPW) is an interesting new tool. It was designed for ease working with SQL Server when you have someone hosting your web-site and you want to publish your database. Sure, you can do backup and restore, but that would involve FTP and you also
Oracle – LOG FILE SWITCH COMPLETION
(James F. Koopmann) Definition – The amount of time users and applications must wait for a log switch to complete.
XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio ‘Orcas’
(Mike Champion) We’re nearly code complete on the next version of Visual Studio, and will soon be releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) so that you can take a look, work on prototypes, and think about how the new features might fit into your development plans. This is the first Orcas CTP th
32-bit to 64-bit SQL Server migrations
(Serdar Yegulalp) Migrating from 32-bit to a 64-bit SQL Server installation isn’t a trivial operation. You have to contend with a number of factors when you move from one platform to the next. Some of the concerns specifically relate to 32/64-bit platform issues and, in this article, I’ll cover thre
Using Notification Services
Timely delivery of key information is crucial in many business solutions. Notification Services is a Microsoft SQL Server based notification platform. This platform allows developers to quickly create notification service applications and allow users to use these applications to receive personalized
Use DB2 Version 9.1 for z/OS to implement application session locking
(Claus Kempfert and Michael Haid) A new feature for DB2 for z/OS V9.1, SKIP LOCKED DATA, gives you the capability to implement application-level session locking, allowing intermediate DB2 commits. Become familiar with the details by following the easy design pattern presented in this article.
Previously committed rows might be missed if NOLOCK hint is used
(Lubor Kollar) I received a question from one of our customers about using the NOLOCK hint: can it cause missing rows in scans even if the rows were committed well before my SELECT with NOLOCK starts?