(Ed Tittel) As a result of input from our readers, I’ll be starting an eight-part series of tutorials on XSLT in my next XML tip running through September. The focus of these tutorials will be on the XML Style Sheet Language, XSLT, which provides mechanisms for ingesting and parsing XML documents as
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Logoff trigger
(René Nyffenegger) A logoff trigger fires when a session disconnects.
Creating SQL views
(Kent Milligan) Is there a way to create a SQL view where fields are dynamically obtained each time the View is used. I am trying to do an analogy with the Logical Files ability to handle not mapped fields, and each time the Physical File is modified, the Logical one reflects the change without any
Open-source projects get free checkup by automated tools
(Robert Lemos) Code-analysis software maker Coverity announced that its automated bug finding tool had analyzed the community-built operating system FreeBSD and flagged 306 potential software flaws, or about one issue for every 4,000 lines of code. The tool, which identifies certain types of program
JavaOne: Java to get Web services, XML improvements
(Paul Krill) Sun Microsystems officials at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Monday presented road maps for the Java programming language, providing details on planned improvements such as boosts for Web services and XML.
Database Interaction with PL/SQL: Pre-defined Exceptions
(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 6 of a series focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. The previous articles discussed several types of collections in PL/SQL. Now Jagadish will look into exception handling using the predefined exceptions available in Oracle PL/SQL.
DB2 Universal Database and the .NET Developer? Absolutely! Part 3 – Information and Other Goodies
(Paul C. Zikopoulos) In Part 1 of this series, I covered the IBM Explorer and its unique features that help .NETTM application developers write applications for the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) product family. In Part 2, I introduced you to a set of schema creation wizards that let you point
SQL Server and business intelligence: Plan ahead
(Serdar Yegulalp) One of the earliest books on software for personal computers was named Nailing Jelly to a Tree. “Software is nebulous, and sometimes hard to get a grasp on,” the authors wrote in the introduction. This is still true today: When people talk about software as a solution to a given pr
Oracle Developer Day – Accelerate Development of Service Oriented Applications
Oracle Developer Day is a free workshop that will give you an insight into the latest technologies in Java and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). With two tracks, one on leading-edge J2EE development, the other on integration and composite-application development, this workshop will allow you to
Managing XML data: eXist — an open source native XML database
(Elliotte Harold) As XML gains popularity, more and more users are finding themselves with a lot of XML documents to manage. Native XML databases are being developed to meet this obvious need. This article examines one such database, the open source eXist. eXist has the tools you need to manage data