(Neil Raden) What is the Semantic Web and how can it help you? The concept may help solve tough corporate information-management problems.
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Integrating .NET Web services with Java and classic ASP Clients for Interoperability
(Anand Thakur) Web Services means structuring operations and data according to SOAP specification in an XML document. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system or language (e.g. Windows or .Net) to communicate with a program in the same or an
Accessing Directory Services in .NET Framework 2.0
(Mark Strawmyer) The configuration of the development environment used for this article is a Microsoft Virtual PC running Windows Server 2003. I promoted it to a domain controller for a fictitious dev.codeguru.com domain. All of the examples in this article run against that server instance. For thos
Process Analysis Services Objects with Integration Services
(William Pearson) In this lesson we revisit an approach to automated / scheduled processing of an Analysis Services database (and related objects), a subject that we undertook in my article Process Analysis Services Cubes with DTS (Database Journal Introduction to MSSQL Server Analysis Services seri
Database Design Using Key-Value Tables
(Tal Olier) In the following article we are going to cover the use of key-value tables in a database design. They can help you with flexibility in design, but will trip you up in other areas (such as data filtering) if you are not careful. I assume that the audience for the following article is fami
DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) for Linux with DRBD and Heartbeat: A Low-Cost Open Linux High Availability Solution
(Anand Subramanian and Melody Ng) This paper discusses a low-cost high availability (HA) solution for the IBM DB2 Universal Database product (DB2 UDB) Version 8.2 on the Linux platform using the open source Linux-HA project (Heartbeat) and Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) software packages
Webcast – The IBM System z9: The Ultimate Data Server
(Willie Favero) Over the last two weeks ( January 24, 2006, February 1, 2006, and February 9, 2006 ), I have posted a couple of entries about our System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) specialty engine. There is now a webcast scheduled to cover the zIIP along with some other items in a di
An emerging XML Web services security infrastructure
(Ed Tittel) Anybody who’s been following application development trends for any time knows that Web Services is fast becoming the veritable “hot seat” of the development world. It’s where the action (and the money) is, and has become a line of business if not an outright obsession for everybody from
Altering Oracle’s SQL*Plus Help Facility
(James F. Koopmann) Everyone needs a little help now and then. If you have never used Oracle’s help facility, venture with me and find new ways you can provide benefit to your users of SQL*Plus through this simple interface.
FIX: When you query a view that was created by using the VIEW_METADATA option, an access violation may occur in SQL Server 2000
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, when you query a view that was created by using the VIEW_METADATA option, an access violation may occur.