(Balaji Rathakrishnan, Christian Kleinerman, Brad Richards, Ramachandran Venkatesh and Vineet Rao) This paper describes how database application developers and architects can take advantage of the CLR integration features in SQL Server 2005. It compares CLR-based programming with existing programmin
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A Full Plate of Information Options
(Holly Hayes) Businesses are increasingly replacing manual processes with electronic ones and integrating processes horizontally — two steps that are key to becoming an “on-demand” business. Integrating these processes requires the ability to find, access, integrate, synchronize, and share a wide va
Web Services Management Arrives
(Mike Lehmann) In this column, I’ll take an introductory look at the new Web services management capabilities in Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3. Unlike my original programmatic foray into this space, where I wrote several JAX-RPC handlers for simple management functionals, this time I
PeopleSoft shareholders tender shares
(Barney Beal) Oracle Corp.’s $9.2 billion takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. neared the finish line early Saturday morning when a majority of stockholders agreed to tender their PeopleSoft shares. (R)
Planning for Disaster Recovery on LAMP Systems
(Robert Jones) I make my living building custom databases with web interfaces for biotechnology companies. These are MySQL and Perl CGI applications, running under Linux, and every one of them is different. Disaster recovery planning for these applications has consisted of routine tape backups of al
IBM Technology To Aid Medical Research In Sweden
(Marianne Kolbasuk McGee) The world’s banks and financial institutions run on information technology. But IT is also becoming just as critical to another type of bank: biobanks, which store biological specimens, such as human tissue, and complex clinical data used by researchers as they collaborate
Oracle Shifts to Quarterly Patch Cycle
(Brian Fonseca) Oracle Corp. plans to announce yet another change to its security patch release process. Three months after adopting a monthly schedule to roll out security fixes, the database management firm says patches will now be issued on a quarterly schedule, beginning January 18, 2005.
Advanced SQL Server DATE and DATETIME Handling
(Daniel Pfaff) There are lot of situations where you need an exact timestamp. For example, you may want to differentiate a recordsets’ creation dates, store technical measurements, or just to see how fast your latest SQL is running. Coding the 4th dimension is another common task, and therefore mill
David vs. Goliath vs. Goliath
(Paul Festa) To listen to David Temkin, you’d think the future was here already. As chief technology officer of San Francisco start-up Laszlo Systems, Temkin is selling the idea that the long-predicted era has arrived in which software applications will live on Web sites rather than desktops.
Oracle Session Tracing Part I
(James Koopmann) This is the first in a series introducing some of the new tracing concepts and options within Oracle. This installment focuses on the new CLIENT_IDENTIFIER environment variable that can be assigned to sessions.