(Vance McCarthy) When Cisco rolled out its AON (Application-Oriented Networking), the company may have changed the face of network hardware. AON’s most-touted bell-and-whistle is a visibility dashboard, which is designed to provide apps managers – not network managers – a real-time view of how their
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Compound XML document profiles for rich content, Part 1: Exploring extensibility alternatives using XML Schema
(Steve Speicher and Kevin E. Kelly) Discover how to build compound XML Schema profiles from core specification schemas. In this article, you explore several extension capabilities of XML Schema and compare approaches for building Compound Document Format (CDF) profiles. In Part 2, you will define a
Examining Organizational Workflows under the hood of .NET: Part II
(razi_rais) Welcome to second installment of “Examining Organizational Workflows under the hood of .NET” , the first part gives overview of what exactly Organizational Workflow’s are and how an organization can analyze them, its also examine the basic components of Workflow and key points that one
DB2 for z/OS Features Contribute to High Availability
(Lee Siegmund) DB2 for z/OS has built a reputation as a world-class database server, and high availability (HA) has been key to that reputation. From the early days of its history to the modern era, DB2 has consistently provided customers with features that can be implemented to provide nearly 24-7
An interview with Gary Mallow
(Douglas Reilly) Database geeks are all around us. I met Gary Mallow on the email list of a cycling group run by a local church. After some conversation, I discovered that he is a director of a group of developers who build applications, sometimes using .NET and often using Oracle as a database. Lik
IBM Workplace Web Content Management – Web Content Management for Portal 5.1 and Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5
(John Bergland, Marilyn Flax, Michael Fromin, Amier Jordan, Sabine Nagl, Theresa Smit, Oliver Trabert and Thomas Radigewski) IBM Workplace Web Content Management is a powerful and sophisticated Web content management product designed to accelerate development and delivery of critical business infor
MySQL Stored Procedures: Part 2
(Ian Gilfillan) Last month I introduced MySQL Stored Procedures. If you have not yet read that article, you should do so first, as I continue to build upon the examples from then. This month I look at some more advanced concepts, including conditions and loops.
Observers Skeptical About Success of Oracle CRM Buyout Binge
(John Pallatto) With its $5.85 billion buyout of Siebel Systems on Monday, Oracle will face persistent questions about how it can effectively market or integrate what amounts to seven different CRM product lines, software industry executives and analysts said.
Increase SQL performance with horizontal partitions
(Arthur Fuller) Horizontal partitioning is the process of creating at least two physical files for a database’s tables. The larger a table, the longer it takes to scan. So the general motive behind horizontal partitioning is to move seldom-used data into a second file.
Security Auditing In Microsoft SQL Server
(Aaron C. Newman) The database community has begun to realize its role in a robust information security infrastructure. Traditionally there has been little concern for the security of relational database systems, and for the vast amounts of data they house. In the early days of relational databases,