(Scott Simmons) The concepts embodied in SOA enable an enterprise to integrate its business processes across its lines of business and their supporting information systems. The ability to coordinate the challenges of enterprise-level integration requires an architecture to facilitate the modeling an
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Interview with Steve Curry on Mysql 5.0
Which are the main differences between the open source and the commercial version of MySql 5.0?
The SOA Sea Change
(Alan Zeichick) Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are going to change everything. From software architecture to development to deployment, over the next few years SOAs will have a bigger impact than most modern paradigm shifts. It’ll be bigger than the shift to the Web, and more analogous in sca
Using and Programming Generics in J2SE 5.0
(Qusay H. Mahmoud) A Java collection is a flexible data structure that can hold heterogeneous objects where the elements may have any reference type. It is your responsibility, however, to keep track of what types of objects your collections contain. As an example, consider adding an int to a co
How to increase the number of SQL Server error logs
This article describes how to increase the number of SQL Server error logs.
Oracle 10gR2 RAC on VMWare – A First Look
(Lewis R Cunningham) Yesterday I wrote about finding VMWare Player, VMWare Player – How sweet it is, a free virtual machine for running pre-built environments. I installed it and played with the browser appliance while I downloaded the pre-built Oracle 10gR2 RAC on Redhat environment. I now have
Integrating Business Intelligence and Financial Management
Hyperion the global leader in Business Performance Management (BPM) software, has unveiled Hyperion System 9, the most comprehensive performance management solution ever and the first to integrate financial management applications with a BI platform into a modular system that will adapt to any busin
What’s New in SOA and Web Services?
(Ed Ort) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) — especially web services-based SOA — has been the talk of the IT community. It’s almost impossible to discuss corporate technology plans or strategies without discussing SOA. That’s because many IT professionals see SOA as a way to speed up the applica
Optimize your databases with the power of PostgreSQL data types
Data type selection plays an important role in how efficiently your relational database management system functions, and so it is important to be fully aware of the options available to you, and to select the most appropriate data type for your storage needs. This download outlines the most importan
An interview with Damian Mehers
(Douglas Reilly) I have never met Damian Mehers, but I know him by way of a tool he created, called PromptSQL. I have, over the years, used a number of tools that promised to bring Intellisense into the SQL Server world, but the way PromptSQL works is unique.