(Mark A. Williams) There are many ways to access data from Oracle databases in .NET applications. In terms of features and performance, however, the Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) is your best choice for connecting .NET applications with Oracle Database.
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Ms. Fix-It
(Kim Moutsos) During her time as a mechanical engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Kate Tomchik envied the relatively easy life enjoyed by her computer science-studying roommates. But Tomchik was not looking to dodge any challenges. After all, the Georgia native chose the Troy, NY-
BEA: XML Brings Distributed Apps To Masses
BEA Systems’ buyout of tools provider M7 signals that BEA execs believes that traditional java/J2EE developers will be working side-by-side with non-Java devs in designing and building out enterprise SOA solutions.
Bridging XML and .Net Web services: Potential Integration Architecture for Enterprise IT department
Web Services have become a viable technology as more and more companies are beginning to realize the ROI inherent in standards-based integration. Web Services signifies a less expensive, loosely coupled and persistent approach to integrate heterogeneous, disparate and distributed enterprise applicat
Making Tables Read-only in Oracle
(MS Sridhar) In Oracle, you can only control read/write capability for an entire tablespace, not for a single table within a tablespace. So, if you want all the tables in a tablespace to be read-only, you can use the following command.
Finding the log hog
(Chris Eaton) Here is another log related monitor script. In this case we are looking for the oldest transaction that is holding log space. The amount of active log space used is determined by the oldest uncommitted transaction. For example, if a transaction is uncommitted and it’s log records a
WebSphere Application Server Express V6 for iSeries: What’s New
(Sue Schmidt and Marilyn Dukart) IBM WebSphere Application Server Express for iSeries (WAS Express) is a tightly integrated development tool and application server. As an alternative to the full-blown WebSphere Application Server (WAS), it provides an easily affordable, single-machine entry point fo
Open Source Becomes Key Player in Business Models
(Darryl K. Taft) What will become of open-source companies when they grow up? Will there be an open-source dot bomb, or is the investment going into open source leading the way for a whole new kind of software company?
For Oracle Database Manager, Things Go Better With Quest
(Charles Babcock) At Stride Rite Corp., Ray LeFebvre, database manager, finds that managing 50 Oracle database systems with a small staff is easier once a third party’s graphical-management tools are sitting on top of his Oracle 8i and 9i systems.
How to use XQuery to query XML data from a SQL Server 2000 database in SQL Server 2005
This article discusses how to use XQuery in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to query XML data from a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. You may want to include well-formed XML tags in the text data of the SQL Server 2000 database before you query the data from SQL Server 2005.