(Joseph F. Kovar) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is finally getting his storage company.
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C++ XML the easy way!
(Alex Hazanov) This article is a successor to my previous article Wrapper class for IXMLDDOMDocument.
SSIS and SQL Server Instances
(Kirk Haselden) This is something you may run into, especially if you’re running Integration Services on a machine with multiple instances and at least one of them is a SQL 2K instance.
Microsoft SQL Server to IBM DB2 UDB Conversion Guide
(Whei-Jen Chen, Alain Fisher, Stefan Hummel, Shailendra Kishore, Wei Bin Teah, Ted Wasserman and Jie Zhang) DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) has long been known for its technology leadership. This IBM Redbook is an informative guide that describes how to convert the database system and applications
Ajax on Rails
(Curt Hibbs) In a few short months, Ajax has moved from an obscure and rarely used technology to the hottest thing since sliced bread. This article introduces the incredibly easy-to-use Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework. This is not a step-by-step tutorial, and
SQL Server 2005 – SQL Server Integration Services – Part 3
(Marcin Policht) This is the third article of our series discussing SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), which provides Extraction, Transformation, and Loading features, replacing Data Transformation Services (DTS) available in SQL Server 2000 and 7.0. We have already presented an overview o
Using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer with the OLAP Option
(Mark Rittman) Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (OracleBI Discoverer) is a suite of business intelligence tools that enables users to query and analyze data stored in Oracle and other databases. Included as part of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, OracleBI Discoverer complements the OLAP Opt
Just Use Media Types?
(Joe Gregorio) In three of my four Restful Web columns, I’ve been describing the design of a REST web service for creating and managing web bookmarks. It’s now time to get down to some coding. The major part of creating such a service is implementing the method of dispatching: how does an incoming H
DB2 application development: Tracing with the DB2 Universal JDBC Driver
(Dirk Fechner) Trace data at the interface between application and database provides the developer with information to identify program errors and to optimize database access. The DB2 Legacy JDBC Driver is based on the DB2 Call Level Interface (CLI) layer and allows for JDBC or CLI tracing through c
MySQL connector for Microsoft Enterprise Library (January 2005 version)
(Benjamin Mayrargue) This code adds support for MySQL database access to the Data Access Application Block of the Microsoft Enterprise Library.