(Renee Boucher Ferguson) Oracle laid out its product-information management strategy with the introduction of its Oracle PIM Data Hub, software that enables users to cull, clean and synchronize product data from various applications, including non-Oracle-based ones.
Other News
SAP gaining on Oracle?
(Kate Gibson) Although Oracle has completed its integration of PeopleSoft, rivals continue to poach software partners and customers of the database giant’s former prey, according to industry observers and competitors.
At Last, a Worthy Open-Source Alternative to Oracle
(Lisa Vaas) People frequently and erroneously allude to the open-source database MySQL as a potential threat to the dominance of the database king, Oracle.
Referential Integrity Utility for IBM DB2 Cube Views
This utility aids the deployment of DB2 Cube Views by helping the customer/Database Administrator (DBA) to identify and resolve Referential Integrity nonconformance in their data warehouse implementation. Successful DB2 Cube Views deployments require a data warehouse relational schema that has a min
Custom Component UI
(Kirk Haselden) We’ve been seeing a heightened interest among SSIS customers in writing custom components as they move from understanding the basic IS concepts to more advanced ones. The question has come up more than once, “Why is the UI code separated from the component code?” Not everyone notices
Make Your Move
(Greg Crawley) DBAs are always looking for quick and easy ways to move tables into new tablespaces. Sometimes table moves are necessary because tables are getting too big; sometimes because grouping a set of tables in a particular tablespace will improve performance. SAP DBAs face a particular chall
FIX: The overridden method in the inherited class does not appear in the Method Name box in Visual Basic .NET 2003
When you inherit a class that inherits and overrides another class in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, the overridden method in the inherited class does not appear in the Method Name box. This problem occurs when you select (Overrides) in the Class Name box of the inherited class.
I.B.M. Software Aims to Provide Security Without Sacrificing Privacy
(Steve Lohr) International Business Machines is introducing software today that is intended to let companies share and compare information with other companies or government agencies without identifying the people connected to it.
Extending the GridView’s Sorting Capabilities
(souri challa) This article examines and extends the “no code needed” sorting capabilities of the GridView server control shipped with ASP.NET version 2.0.
Semicolons in T-SQL
(Andrew Novick) A few weeks ago I got a message with a question from a reader. The reader had a performance problem with a UDF and asked if I would take a look at it.