(Dare Obasanjo) One of the main reasons for XML’s rise to prominence as the lingua franca for information interchange is that, unlike prior data interchange formats, XML can easily represent both rigidly structured tabular data (e.g., relational data or serialized objects) and semi-structured data (
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DataDirect Predicts 2005 Will Be XQuery’s Year
DataDirect, the leading data connectivity provider, predicts sweeping changes in the way software applications are built, because of XQuery developments. The highly anticipated language for querying and creating XML documents simplifies and accelerates data integration and XML querying.
Forms Functionality in J2EE
(Steve Muench) If you are a veteran Oracle Forms user, you’re already well versed in leveraging a visual, declarative, framework-based tool to get your job done. Without thinking twice, you use the Oracle Forms Builder to create instances of application-building objects—forms, data blocks, relations
Best Practices are always the Best (about the Best Practices Analyzer)
(Dinesh Asanka) I personally believe that no matter how much you are knowledgeable in the technical arena, if you are not adopting best practices you will be lost in one day. We as IT professionals best practices have become order of the day. To achieve this, there are many tools around us which
PL/SQL List Parsing Utility
(Jason Bennett) I have had need of a utility such as the one being provided in this entry on almost every major Oracle development project I’ve been involved in over the last ten years. The utility, a PL/SQL package called ListUtils, performs three key functions on a delimited string or list: (1
Oracle Developer Days – Accelerate Development of Service Oriented Applications
Oracle Developer Day is a free workshop that will give you an insight into Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the latest Java and Web services technologies including JSF, BPEL, JAX-RPC, WS-I, WS-Security, WS-Reliability, and more. This workshop also allow you to interact directly with the Orac
Accessing MySQL BLOB columns using Visual Basic 6
(Mike Hillyer) One of MySQL’s strengths is it’s use of Binary Large Object (BLOB) columns. These columns store unprocessed binary data, typically files, that can be retrieved and manipulated like the other common datatypes. One sample use would be the storage of images into the database to be retrie
FIX: Performance is slow when you update a subscribed table on a subscriber that uses queued updating in SQL Server 2000
When you change data in a subscribed table on the subscriber and the subscribed table is configured for queued updating in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the data on the subscriber may be updated slowly.
Designing .NET Class Libraries
The Designing .NET Class Libraries series presents design guidelines for developing classes and components that extend the .NET Framework. The goal of the Designing .NET Class Libraries series is to encourage consistency and predictability in public APIs while enabling Web and cross-language integra
Partitioned data and impending upgrade
(Craig Mullins) We have a partitioned tablespace that is partitioned by year/month. The last partition was created with a value ‘2004/12’. The table was to have been obsoleted by 12/2004 but will probably be around until mid-2006. The data is loaded monthly in year/month order. Depending on the work