(Kastellanos Nikos) This article explains an engine that transforms XML files on a web server.
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Get Seamless .NET Exception Logging From COM Clients Without Modifying Your Code
(Matt Adamson) Many developers who still use ASP pages for presentation services are integrating COM and .NET objects to provide the business services of the application. Using .NET objects from ASP can help developers gain experience with the .NET Framework before migrating to ASP.NET. Their ASP pa
XQuery’s Niche
(Edd Dumbill) Welcome to the last XML-Deviant of 2004. Hauling myself up out of last week’s excess, I find there have been several interesting developments in XML over the last fortnight. The Christmas season tends to yield more than average productivity, as programmers hide in darkened rooms to
How to generate reports using stored procedures
(Jagannath Lenka) Reporting is an important feature of any information management system. The AS/400 was well known for reporting during the mid-90s. Since then, IBM has added many new advanced features to the server’s reporting suite. But the third-party reporting tools in the open system environme
DB2 Version 8 z/OS Stored Procedures and Workload Manager: Realizing the Synergy and Planning for Migration
(Susan Lawson and Dan Luksetich) In DB2 UDB for z/OS, stored procedures can help reduce network traffic, simplify development and improve availability. But without Workload Manager, you’re not getting the full value from stored procedures. And if you’re moving to DB2 V8, managing stored procedures i
SQL Server 2005: Day to Day DBA – Part I
(Steve Warren) I have been thinking about this series for quite awhile and have decided to start my Day to Day DBA (DTDDBA). This series will consist of How-To articles from a beginning perspective and advance as far as I can take it. My goal for this series is to teach you the basics as well as adv
Letting JMS-based Object Cache do the Heavy Lifting
(Venkat Tipparam) J2EE has emerged as the standard platform for developing server-side Java applications, and although it offers many benefits to Java developers—portability, scalability, and integration capabilities, for example—it also offers a fair number of challenges, among them being grappling
BUG: Cannot uninstall SQL Server 6.5 after SQL Server 7.0 is upgraded to SQL Server 2000 on the same computer
If you try to uninstall SQL Server 6.5 by doing the following after SQL Server 7.0 has been upgraded to SQL Server 2000 on the same computer: On the Start menu, choose Programs, select Microsoft SQL Server-Switch, and then click Uninstall SQL Server 6.x. you may receive the following error messa
A Form Break
(David A. Kelly) A few years ago, Oracle announced that it was eventually making Oracle Forms Web-only and that it was investing heavily in Java, J2EE, and Oracle JDeveloper. Larry Phillips, chief technology officer at Computer Methods International Corporation (CMiC), in Toronto, was worried. For m
Oracle Gains Control of PeopleSoft
(Dawn Kawamoto) Oracle announced that 75 percent of PeopleSoft investors have tendered their shares, giving it a controlling stake in the company but falling short of the level needed for a speedy close to the deal.