(Maureen O’Gara) Oracle has come up with a thing it’s calling Oracle Database Lite 10g, a derivative of its 10g grid technology and an update of its eight-year-old Data Lite mojo, meant for the mobile and embedded crowd on the theory that mobile deployments have emerged as critical business systems
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Up and Running with DB2 UDB ESE: Partitioning for Performance in an e-Business Intelligence World
(Corinne Baragoin, Alain Fournil, Andrea Hirata Miqui, George Latimer, Susan Schuster and Calisto Zuzarte) Data warehouses in the 1990s were for the privileged few business analysts. Business Intelligence is now being democratized by being shared with the rank and file employee demanding higher leve
Binary XML is fast in theory but may be slow in adoption
(Rich Seeley) As any coder can tell you, XML documents are verbose. If you wanted to design a language for high-speed processing and transactions, you could probably do better than XML. But the question is: Could a new format or standard achieve the widespread popularity of XML?
IBM Integration plug-in for Derby
(Susan L. Cline and Rajesh Kartha) The IBM Integration plug-in for Derby provides a seamless integration between Eclipse and Apache Derby. It enables the use of the Derby database JAR files as an installable component to Eclipse. Additionally the ij SQL scripting tool and the Apache Derby Network Se
SAML 2: The Building Blocks of Federated Identity
(Paul Madsen) For some, nothing beats the adventure of setting off on a trip to some faraway land carrying nothing but a toothbrush and a guidebook. Traveling to some remote locale and bringing little of the comforts of home is what makes it interesting and rewarding–no Holiday Inn for these hardy s
An Alternative XML Solution
(Wayne Fillis) XML is a great tool for sharing and manipulating data. It is becoming (or is already!) a de facto standard in the Enterprise for the sharing of data in the form of XML documents, saved as .XML files (which can be opened and viewed in Internet Explorer) or imported directly into SQL Se
How do I track file growths on my data files?
(Mark Allison) Sadly, the current version of SQL Server (2000) does not have a table which logs data file growths. Performance monitor (perfmon.exe) does not allow you to monitor file growths either, however you can monitor transaction log file growths using performance monitor. If you would lik
An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server
(Surajit Chaudhuri and Vivek Narasayya) In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database. The tool takes as input a workload of SQL queries, and suggests a set of suit
Munch for .NET People
(mullai ilamaran am) In this section I introduce several definitions that are common jargon in the world of database administration and normalization.
Zend Launches PHP Runtime Platform
(Edward J. Correia) Proponents of PHP would rather forget that it once stood for “personal home page.” Zend Technologies, which makes development and acceleration tools for PHP, says that while the technology has been available for years, enterprise adoption has been somewhat less than universal.