(Mark Brunelli) Oracle Corp.’s acquisition of Innobase OY is largely an effort to disrupt rival database vendor MySQL AB and is a testament to the growing momentum of open source software (OSS), the outspoken president and CEO of SleepyCat Software said in an interview. (R)
Other News
REST on Rails
(Matt Biddulph) Imagine a news website with simple URLs for its news items and the categories they belong to: http://example.com/item/15 and http://example.com/category/rails. Suppose that it has been built using Ruby on Rails. In the article, we’ll discuss how to REST-enable this site, giving r
DB2 Universal Database Version 8.2 for Linux How To
(Ian Hakes, Rory Hinton and Dan Scott) This HOWTO is intended for anyone interested in installing and using 32−bit IBM DB2 Universal Database on Linux. If you’re interested in 64−bit or other architectures, we refer you to the official documentation sources (see Resources for a link).
Oracle Enterprise Manager gets a makeover
(Mark Brunelli) Oracle completed its round of 10g Release 2 software updates with the newest version of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). The new version of the software management suite adds high-level dashboards that help to correlate and analyze the relationship between database processes and
SQL Server 2005: 10 steps to justify and plan your upgrade
(Jeremy Kadlec) In light of the impending SQL Server 2005 launch, many organizations are considering the upgrade but they don’t know where to start or how to get from point A to point B in a timely manner. This tip outlines the top 10 high-level steps to get you on the right path to a SQL Server 200
Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity
Match your uptime objectives to the best DR or high availability solution. This white paper helps you understand the basics of business continuity, how to calculate downtime costs and then select the most optimum cost-effective software strategy. (R)
Do the Simple Things First
(Craig S. Mullins) Simplification is an imperative in this day and age of increasing complexity and ever-changing software environments. A key component of simplification, in my opinion, is to remember the basics and apply some simple rules and practices to our DB2 subsystems and applications. Indee
Working XML: Safe coding practices, Part 4
(Benoit Marchal) This is the concluding article in a series that looks at common pitfalls with the deployment of XML. XML has been around for…seven years already! During that time, I’ve been involved in quite a few consulting projects and have taught many seminars on XML technology. I’ve notic
Inline Schemas
(Stan Kitsis) Inline schemas are XML schema definitions included inside XML instance documents. Like external schema documents, inline schemas can be used to validate that the instance matches the schema constraints. By default, System.xml disables processing of inline schemas; to enable them, set t
How To Rapidly Build Native XML Applications With LAMP
(Wendy Schott) Talk to most J2EE shops today and they’ll tell you that expert developers are required, development cycles are long, modifications are difficult, and maintenance is costly. Development has become overly complex and enterprises are looking for new ways to streamline the process and red