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Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, a comprehensive suite of collaboration products that offers robust functionality for businesses to better manage and deliver content and communications throughout the enterprise. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g adds comp
A sorting and paging DataGrid loading data on-demand, saving changes in bulk from and to an Oracle database, in ASP.NET
(Patrice Borne) This article demonstrates how to implement a paging DataGrid with an Oracle database. It also demonstrates how to limit the volume of data to exchange between the Web Server and the browser by retrieving only the rows necessary and updating changes in bulk.
IBM’s Business Intelligence Plan Focuses on Partners, Middleware
(Alex Woodie) When IBM revealed it was leaving the market for online analytical processing (OLAP) software earlier this month, it spawned competing ideas as to why Big Blue was abandoning such a profitable sector of the software market, and what its business intelligence strategy would be going forw
SOA application-oriented network devices
(Peter Abrahams) If SOA solutions are going to live up to the expectations of supporting agile business processes then the individual services will need to be fine grained. They need to be sufficiently small so that they can be used in multiple different business processes easily. They need to b
Create Interoperable Native Web Services
(Roger Jennings) SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and higher add native XML Web services as a new feature that enables DBAs and .NET database developers to expose stored procedures, user-defined functions, and ad-hoc batch queries as SOAP 1.x Web methods. Native Web services substitute SOAP over HT
Pervasive Software, Inc.’s Pervasive.SQL and PostgreSQL: Expert at Low-Cost, High-Performance Databases
There are now two large classes of database users falling outside of the traditional largeenterprise database customer — loosely, “Low-IT” and “high-flexibility” organizations. Table 1 shows some of the key database characteristics that these organizations seek. (pdf)
Database Interaction with PL/SQL, Working with TABLE in Sub-programs, Parameter Modes
(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 15 of a series of articles focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. In my previous article, we looked at several examples that covered the use of sub-programs. In this article we will work with PL/SQL TABLE types in between sub-programs. We will also dis
A simple way to read an XML file in Java
(Kiran Pai) This is the simplest way to read data from an XML file into a Java program. I have also included some basic error checking, so you can directly cut-paste this code with a few changes ofcourse. All you have to do is change the XML tags within the program to match those that are present in
Monitoring Your Database with Just Scripts
(Chris Eaton) In preparing for the upcoming International DB2 User Group (IDUG) European conference, I thought I would post a set of entries on one of my presentation from last year. For those interested, this year the IDUG European conference is being held in Berlin from October 24-28,2005.