(Ronald Bourret) Content management systems are systems for storing, retrieving, and assembling documents from document fragments (content). They generally include such features as editors, version control, and multi-user access. Although they are usually built on top of a database (some are built o
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XML at the command line with XSH
(Ed Tittel) When it comes to navigating a document tree and plucking data from its leaves, many XML developers use one XSLT engine or another to perform this task. XSH is a command-line XML shell that makes this unnecessary for small or quick ‘n dirty jobs, and allows you query and manipulate docume
Recommended Crystal Reports Resources for .NET Developers
(Eric Landes) Welcome to my article describing the toolkit I use when developing Crystal Reports for ASP.NET environments. This toolkit includes some of the code snippets, websites, direct links, and other bits and pieces that I turn to when creating a Crystal Reports web solution.
Will Fusion satisfy JDE and PeopleSoft customers?
(Luke Meredith and Matt Stansberry) It might not be the panacea J.D. Edwards (JDE) and PeopleSoft customers were looking for, but Oracle Corp. hopes that they see its newly branded Fusion Middleware as a start. (R)
IDUG – DB2 .vs. Oracle
(James F. Koopmann) Breaking through the Holy War OK, IDUG has come and gone but I am still spending this week going over some of the session I visited. Next week we will look at a book I have been reading on Database Security.
Investigating Design Criteria for Searching Databases
(Michael Miller and Bertan Tezcan) Whether it is at the core, edge or access platform, network routers have one basic function: packet forwarding. Edge routers, however, have the need to perform additional processing and deeper examination of incoming packets – in the most efficient manner. To a
Leveraging .NET Components and IDE Integration: UI AOP in an MVC use case
(Daniel Cazzulino) Microsoft targets .NET as a platform extremely well suited for component development. Behind this assertion is a brand-new architecture that really turns it into much more than a marketing hype. Microsoft shows that it has learned a lot from its previous component-oriented arc
Transferring Data from One Table to Another
(Gregory A. Larsen) Every DBA needs to transfer data between tables. This is the kind of task that comes up all the time. Not only do DBAs need to know how to transfer data between two tables on the same server, but they will also need to know how to do it from one server to another. This article wi
Database Interaction with PL/SQL, part 2
(Jagadish Chatarji) This article picks up where part one left off. You will learn more about how to use %ROWTYPE and %TYPE, and be introduced to TYPE, RECORD, and TABLE declarations in PL/SQL.
Modeling columns as rows
(Arthur Fuller) The logical consequent of normalization is that columns should be modeled as rows only theoretically. In practice, where the number of columns may remain constant for years, this refinement is unnecessary. But in some situations, you should think about representing these attributes a