OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. OpenDocument provides a royalty-free, XML-bas
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Oracle 10g PL/SQL Enhancements, Part 1: DBMS_CRYPTO, DBMS_MONITOR, and DBMS_SERVER_ALERT
(Jim Czuprynski) With the addition of over fifty new PL/SQL packages as well as enhancements to a majority of existing DBMS packages, Oracle 10g has added a plethora of new tools to every Oracle DBA’s tool belt. This article – the first is a series — explores some of the more intriguing packages an
Canadian Broadcasting in XML
(John E. Simpson) Ask someone who’s been observing the XML scene for a few years about XML in the context of cell phones and similar devices (PDAs and so on). What you’ll get from them will probably include references to WML, WAP, and various web services. What you most likely won’t get from them wi
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(Chip Andrews) Truth be told, most of the SQL Server installations in your enterprise probably fall into one of two categories. Category one is developer machines that have installed SQL Server (i.e., one of the various install types — Desktop Edition, Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition or the ob
The Sorcerer of OO, Part 3
(Lewis R Cunningham) In Part 1 of this series, we talked about how Oracle objects compare to Java and how to create Oracle Objects. In Part 2, I covered we covered object comparison and type inheritance. Today, we’ll talk about polymorphism and type evolution.
Security: MySQL and PHP
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(Mary Jo Foley) Microsoft Corp.’s request that developers do more testing of the .Net Framework before the Redmond, Wash., software vendor delivers that technology to market doesn’t seem to be fazing the Microsoft development community.
CA Presents DB2 Innovation Award to The Royal Bank of Canada at IDUG 2005
Computer Associates International, Inc. named RBC Financial Group as this year’s winner of the North American Award for Innovation with DB2. The award was presented at the International DB2 User Group Conference in Denver, CO.
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