(Craig Fellenstein and Joshy Joseph) Whether in academia, business, industry, or personal life, people solve problems better when they work together. But, despite rapid advances in processing speed, storage devices, and network bandwidth, enabling dynamic collaboration through technology can be extr
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Trace Messages Part I: Managing Application Sessions
(Andrew Novick) I’ve been writing a lot of .Net code in the last couple of years and have become enamored of the TRACE capability that’s built in to .Net. The TRACE object lets the programmer add lines of trace output to any program through the TRACE.WRITELINE method. Trace messages are sent to on
Oracle’s Wookey Says PeopleSoft Developers Successfully Retained
(Charles Babcock) Oracle’s development teams have begun mapping out the architecture of the “Fusion” generation of applications that will merge Oracle’s acquired PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards software with its own, John Wookey, Oracle’s senior VP for applications development, said Thursday.
Optimizing Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services: Execution Log Reporting: Preparation as a Data Source
(William E. Pearson, III) To get the most out of the Optimizing MSSQL Server Reporting Services series, we need to have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, together with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (required to access Report Designer for report creation). Reporting Services ships
The Globalization of Language in Oracle – Terminology
(James Koopmann) With today’s exploding world economy, multi-national communication is essential. Databases must not only store different character sets but also present information in a comfortable format and order for individuals from every locale. This series explores how to globalize your databa
FIX: You receive a 17883 error message when you perform large in-memory sort operations in SQL Server 2000
When you perform large in-memory sort operations in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Server may not yield to the SQL Server User Mode Scheduler (UMS). This behavior could lead to stalled worker requests. When this problem occurs, connection timeouts and other time-sensitive operations may fail. When t
Oracle Flashback Technology
According to many studies, 40% of application outages are caused by operator or user errors. Part of being human is making mistakes. But these errors are extremely difficult to avoid and can be particularly difficult to recover from without advance planning and the right technology. Such errors
Next MySQL Database Coming Up In 2Q, CEO Says
(Barbara Darrow) MySQL is on track to deliver version 5 of its database in the second quarter, according to CEO Marten Mickos.
Modernizing IBM iSeries Application Data Access – A Roadmap Cornerstone
(Hernando Bedoya, Birgitta Hauser has, Rolf AndrŽ Klaedtke, Sharon Hoffman and Warawich Sundarabhaka) In 1978 IBM introduced the System/38 as part of its midrange platform hardware base. One of the many outstanding features of this system was the built-in Relational Database Management System (R
REST Reporting
(Eric Gropp) Producing paper reports is a fundamental requirement of many applications. As more systems are exposed as services, REST, XSLT, and the mighty URI can create a reporting approach that has a number of advantages over traditional, database-direct reporting engines.