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Beyond The Default
(Roger E. Sanders) If I asked what isolation level your most important, mission-critical application is running under, would you know the answer? Do you know how to use isolation levels to control the behavior and performance of applications in multiuser environments? Or do you go with the defaults
Further Troubleshooting Tips for JDev 10.1.3 Production Secure Web Services
(Colin Maxwell) There are a few areas where people can run into problems with this area of the product, I’ve outlined these in this Blog entry. Hopefully they’ll help sort out with any issues you may encounter.
Enterprise Data Management in SQL Server 2005
(Eric Brown) This chapter covers what’s new in enterprise database administration. It doesn’t just look at the product from a feature list, but groups the features according to some tasks common to database administration.
MySQL, Oracle Ink Multiyear Deal on InnoDB
(China Martens) MySQL AB has signed a multiyear agreement with Oracle to renew its licensing of the InnoDB database storage engine, according to a MySQL executive. The move resolves confusion in the market about the likely effect on MySQL of Oracle’s purchase last year of the maker of InnoDB, Innoba
Oracle9iR2 Shared Pool Advisory
(James F. Koopmann) If you want to get the most out of Oracle, you will have to learn how to size its internal memory structures. Let’s take a look at the Shared Pool, what it is composed of, and a new tool that Oracle has given us tune it.
Working XML: Comparing XSLT 2.0 and XQuery
(Benoit Marchal) Since it was introduced in November 1999, I have found that XSLT, the XSL Transformations language, is one of the most useful (if not the most useful) tools you can use to manipulate XML documents. Many available APIs and tools work with XML documents from Java or other languages, a
Using C# for Inserting CLOB data in Oracle
(ace) Even the latest versions of Oracle’s database have a limitation on the size of strings that they can handle when storing and retrieving data from tables. Currently, this limitation is 4,000 characters. Prior to version 8.1 that was 2,000. While this limitation does not cause any problems for s
Prototype: Easing AJAX’s Pain
(Bruce Perry) This article describes Prototype, an open source JavaScript library to create an object for an AJAX application. I explain how to use Prototype by describing an environmentally oriented web application that displays an annual atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level. First, I will discus
Business intelligence features in SQL Server 2005
(Eric Brown) Almost every application has some level of reporting. It may form as something as simple as a query or database view providing the total number of new orders or Web site hits. Yet many companies’ business intelligence only happens in Microsoft Office or static reports, which are printed