(Barbara Darrow) Oracle wants to make database development and upkeep easier with a new toolset dubbed Project Columbus due in the first half of next year.
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MySQL Ships Easy-to-Use Visual Database Tools; New Line of GUI Tools Expands Market for World’s Most Popular Open Source Database
MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced the general availability of a set of graphical query and administration tools designed to make life easier for MySQL(R) database developers, DBAs and users.
Managed Stored Procedures and User Defined Functions – Part I
(Darshan Singh) By now you might have heard that SQL Server 2005 hosts the .NET 2.0 runtime. This enables writing stored procedures, functions and triggers using any of the managed languages, such as C# and VB .NET. This article is based on my first experience with SQLCLR integration, where I co
Combine RSS Feeds and Display Random Items
This code sample demonstrates how multiple RSS feeds can be combined, parsed, and displayed using the XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter classes in the .NET framework. It can display all items found in one or more RSS feeds or display only a few items in a random manner. Ben Miller (Microsoft MVP L
Word to XML and Back Again
(Peter Sefton) A recent article on the O’Reilly Network showed how to edit XML using Word 2003, as long as your target XML format was not too far-removed from the built-in structural limitations of a word processor, and last year there was a survey of solutions on XML.com. But since Word 2000d, it h
IBM moves the goalposts
(Philip Howard) At its annual analyst conference, IBM announced its next generation database. The big news is that this will not be a relational database. Or, to be more accurate, it will not just be a relational database.
Moving Your Access 2002 Database to SQL Server 2000
(Adam Cogan) Use this features comparison in preparation for migrating your Access 2002 database back end to SQL Server 2000.
DB2 Tracking Database Changes
(Marin Komadina) Database security is no longer something that should be implemented, but is something that every serious company must have, to bring a certain level of reassurance to their clients. A DB2 DBA should know what is going on in his database. In addition, he should have a log of actions
Oracle Migration Workbench – Part 4
(Steve Callan) At the end of Part Three, we finished installing SQL Server and created a user account that has access to the Northwind database. In Part Four, we will go into more detail about SQL Server and how it compares to Oracle. This part of the series also covers the setup and preparation to
A Look at WebCharts, a Free .NET Charting Control
(Scott Mitchell) Any piece of data or information is limited its usefulness by how it is presented. For example, the sales figures for your company for the past year may seem like very important and useful information, but if this data is presented as, say, a raw data dump, spanning hundreds of page