(Douglas Reilly) To say that Jim was a database geek [when we worked together] is an understatement. He was the guy who wrote stored procedures to write stored procedures.
Other News
Oracle’s purchase of InnoDB, their release of Oracle Express, and the effect on MySQL
(Ian Gilfillan) As most of you will know, the big news recently in the MySQL world, besides the launch of the long-awaited MySQL 5, involves Oracle. Oracle has done two things that will catch the attention of MySQL users. First was the purchase of Finnish company Innobase OY, who develop the code fo
The Singleton and Factory Patterns in PHP: designing an object factory
(Alejandro Gervasio) This article, the second part of a series, is focused on implementing the Factor Pattern by designing a form element factory.
SQL/XML-IMDB
QuiLogic has developed SQL/XML-IMDB, a high performance in-memory native XML database engine with SQL and XQuery interface, transaction and multi-threading support. SQL/XML IMDB simplifies application development and integration through declarative data management and by providing a seamless integr
Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One to Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition with Real Application Clusters Migration using the Dell Server Platform
(Matt Bush, Shawn Kelley and Mahmoud Ahmadian) This document was designed to assist database administrators in migrating deployed Oracle Database Standard Edition One databases on Dell Platforms to an Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition with Real Application Clusters environment. (pdf)
Logging via the Microsoft Enterprise Library
(Tony Patton) The Microsoft Enterprise Library was introduced in last week’s column. It provides a collection of seven application blocks that utilize similar design patterns as well as development and configuration requirements. These blocks may be used to enhance your application while reducing de
A Complete Data Warehouse Development Tool: Still a Distant Dream
(Imrose V. Kumar) I have been working on data warehouse development projects for several years. Every project brings new challenges, but the most important challenge of every new project is to decide upon the tools used to develop and maintain the data warehouse. Making this decision has never b
Introduction to DMV’s and DMF’s in SQL Server 2005
(Vinod Kumar) Diagnosing problems in SQL Server 2000 has always been a point of concern from both developers and DBA’s. More often than not we would have had a need to use undocumented and DBCC commands which are sometimes very difficult to understand too. SQL Server 2005 on the contrary is like a o
PostgreSQL community releases version 8.1
The PostgreSQL development community has released version 8.1 of the open source database introducing new advanced features and performance improvements for what is claimed to be the most advanced open source database management system.
Ajax for Java developers: Ajax with Direct Web Remoting
(Philip McCarthy) Understanding the fundamentals of Ajax programming is essential, but if you’re building complex Ajax UIs, it’s also important to be able to work at a higher level of abstraction. In this third article in the Ajax for Java developers series, I build on last month’s introduction to d