(Matthew Gibbs and Rob Howard) One of the unique opportunities for members of the ASP.NET team is reviewing the architecture design for customers, which is beneficial not only for the customer but also for us. The customer gets validation and critical feedback about their design, and we get first-h
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Working XML: Take advantage of lessons learned by refactoring XM
(Benoît Marchal) In this article, the author continues to work on a new version of XM, the simple content management solution that’s based on XML and integrated with Eclipse. He discusses issues faced while refactoring code and shows you how to create an incremental builder in Eclipse.
Data mining with association rules using WebSphere Commerce Analyzer
(Eric Poulin and Kirsten Rutherford) This short tutorial shows how you can create association rule mining against the WebSphere Commerce operational database or against a WebSphere Commerce Analyzer data mart where the production system is not impacted. You can use the results from association rule
Users Adjust to XML Tax on Networks
(Darryl K. Taft) As much as XML use grows for projects involving document and data manipulation, enterprises are finding that the benefits of XML are not without associated costs.
Oracle Integration: Starting with Perl
(Vance McCarthy) Java, ASP and .NET developers working with Oracle, as well as Oracle DBAs, face increasing pressure to find affordable, full-featured tools to help with database integration development projects. One of the most affordable options, Perl scripting, has now become an even more powerfu
Oracle9i Real Application Clusters and PolyServe Matrix Server on IBM xSeries and BladeCenter
(Martha Centeno, Kevin Closson, Olivier Fraimbault, Phil Horwitz and Gregory Verstraeten) How do I implement a database server that can dynamically scale to meet my changing IT requirements? How do I improve the response time and throughput of my database server? How do I deliver availability while
Using the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
(Wei-Meng Lee) Microsoft has finally added reporting capabilities to its flagship database server, SQL Server 2000. Originally designed for its next release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2005 (codenamed Yukon), SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services was recently announced as an add-on to SQL Server 2000 due
Web Services Now and When
(Clint Boulton) One of the most significant changes in the software industry has been the arrival of Web services , a truly distributed computing model in which applications “talk” to one another.
ADO.NET Generates SQL for You Via the SqlCommandBuilder
(Paul Kimmel) Everywhere you turn, someone is promoting software methodologies: Kent Beck with eXtreme Programming (XP), Dr. Barry Boehm with Agile methods, IBM/Rational with the Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Microsoft with services-oriented architecture (SOA). Although each offers somethi
Oracle Session Tracing Part II
(James Koopmann) This part of the series is an extension to Part I and shows how to set two more very important session environment variables to make tracing more effective. Read on and learn how to set the module and action names.