(Srinivas Sampath) Native Web Services (also called HTTP Endpoints) is a new feature in SQL Server 2005. In fact, the concept of Endpoints itself is new, since you can also have other types of endpoints. Apart from the “native” aspect of web services, the concept of web services in SQL Server is how
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Q&A: Microsoft’s Flessner touts ‘game changers’ in SQL Server 2005
(Carol Sliwa) Paul Flessner, senior vice president of server applications at Microsoft Corp., said the “game changers” that will set SQL Server 2005 apart from the competition’s databases are the integration of the company’s Visual Studio development environment and business intelligence capabilitie
Java theory and practice: Make database queries without the database
(Brian Goetz) When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail (as the old saying goes). But what if you don’t have a hammer? Well, sometimes, you can borrow a hammer. Then, hammer in hand, you can bang the virtual nails with the borrowed hammer, return it, and no one is the wiser. In this month
Setting Up Internet Information Services and ASP.NET (Sample Chapter)
(Roderick Smith) The last chapter gave a sweeping introduction to the .NET Framework. But before you start creating ASP.NET web pages and applications, you need to make sure that you have the correct environment on your computer.
Volatile Resource Managers in .NET Bring Transactions to the Common Type
(Juval Lowy) Transactional programming has traditionally been restricted to database-centric applications. Other types of applications did not see the same benefits from this superior programming model. The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 introduces rudimentary support for volatile resource managers, e
Deploying ASP.NET Applications
(Vijendra Pal) After creating and testing your ASP.NET application, the next step is to deploy the application. Deployment is the process of distributing the finished application to be installed on other computer. We can use the built-in deployment feature that comes with Visual studio .NET to creat
Fifteen things DBAs should unlearn about Oracle
(Bob Watkins) Oracle 8i, 9i, and 10g have altered the facts behind several common practices followed by database administrators. Consultant and veteran DBA Bob Watkins suggests that ‘products move on,’ and the old way of doing things sometimes needs to be abandoned in favor of the methods that new f
Building Efficient Sales & Service Ops: The Implementation of Oracle 11i CRM
(Ashwin Pingali) In the previous blogs we have seen the issues and features related to Oracle 11i Incentive Compensation. In this series of blogs I intend to introduce the Oracle 11i Sales modules starting with the sales process itself.
IBM WebSphere SOA Framework and Java J2EE Web Services
(Scott Simmons) Last month’s article introduced the WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture, as well as an SOA framework and some services. This month’s concludes by looking at more services and showing the architecture in action.
Oracle in middleware marketing push
(David Watson) Over the past couple Oracle has been in the news for its applications acquisitions — the takeover of PeopleSoft and, more recently, the intended buyout of Siebel generated plenty of headlines.