(Dan Farber) The promise of Web services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) is interoperability among disparate software components, regardless of platform. It’s the next software development nirvana, which is at the beginning of its ascendancy–meaning that there is lot of room for new compan
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IBM Automates Backup Of DB2 Files
(Joseph F. Kovar) IBM introduced software that enables a specific bundle of hardware, applications and services to do policy-based automation of DB2 backups.
Easy, Native Access to DB2 From C and C++
(Andrew Binstock) If you were doing business programming before the early 1990s, you surely remember that databases were accessed directly from applications, rather than relying on external mechanisms or imperative languages such as SQL. In those days, if you were writing a C program, for example, y
Configuration Management in ASP.NET 2.0 – Part 1
(Saravana Kumar) One new, important feature in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to read/edit the configuration files in local machine or remote machine. In ASP.NET 1.x, editing of the configuration files was not supported. The only option to edit a configuration file is to treat the configuration file as
The Real Time Data Management Imperative
(Ken Rugg and Mark Palmer) By the time you finish reading this article, an automated trading system on Wall Street will have evaluated the state of the stock market 210 million times, executed over 100,000 electronic stock trades, and may account for 10 million dollars. This system captures ever
Using MySQL from PHP, Part 2
(John Coggeshall) Hello again, welcome back to PHP Foundations. In my last column, I introduced some of the basic functions used when accessing a MySQL database from PHP. With what you have learned so far, you should now be able to perform queries and access the result sets from within your PHP scri
Effective Database Design: Choosing The Right Process (Sample Chapter)
(Rebecca M. Riordan) This chapter examines the process of project design, and discusses the various models of project life-cycle, with the intention of helping you to choose the right one for your database design project.
Which Storage XML?
(Sean Dillon) The introduction of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) raised questions. How would we share XML if my documents looked different from yours? How could we make XML documents human-readable? How could we store these documents and expect to have any kind of performance when we queried t
Skills Zone
(Howard Fosdick) All certification candidates, regardless of their advanced certification goals, must first get past the same test: the DB2 UDB v.8 Family Fundamentals Exam (#700). This basic test provides entry to all DB2 certifications, including DB2 database administrator, application developer,
Auditing Oracle Security
(KK Mookhey) An organization’s database is the crown jewel of its IT infrastructure and a prime target for most attackers. Consequently, auditors must verify that all necessary security measures have been implemented on database systems to ensure the security of this prime information asset. Oracle