(Mark Levene and Peter Wood) XML is becoming the universal language for communicating information on the Web and has gained wide acceptance through its standardisation. As such XML plays an important enabling role for dynamic computation over the Web. Compression of XML documents is crucial in this
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(Andrew Donoghue) A new XML-based reporting language could improve companies’ reporting of their businesses’ social and environmental impact, according to a report from the United Nations.
Monitoring and Performance Diagnostics on Oracle 10g
Get an exclusive overview of Quest Software’s APM Suite for the Oracle J2EE platform at one of our free Webcasts. This live Webcast will demostrate how the APM Suite works with the Oracle AS 10g J2EE based platform – using Quest Foglight for monitoring the OC4J instances and diagnosing a J2EE ba
DB2 Basics: How to get useful information from the DB2 UDB system catalog
(Roman B. Melnyk) IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) maintains a set of special tables called the system catalog. These tables, which contain the metadata that describes database objects, have two sets of views defined on them: read-only views under the SYSCAT schema and updatable views under the SYSS
How A Criminal Might Infiltrate Your Network
(Jesper Johansson) One of the great mysteries in security management is the modus operandi of criminal hackers. If you don’t know how they can attack you, how can you protect yourself from them? Prepare to be enlightened. This article is not intended to show you how to hack something, but rather
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(Timothy Hahn) Using on demand environments to make their services more available requires businesses to coordinate systems management. IBM* Tivoli* Security product suite is designed to help enhance perimeter-defense monitoring and reaction, centralize access-control policy administration, coordina
SQL Basics
(P.G. Daly) Knowing how to read and write SQL is a skill that is usually taken for granted. It’s assumed SQL is a tool every IT professional has in his or her toolkit. Within the world of the intranet where the business and IT realms often blend together, that can be a detrimental assumption to make
IBM’s autonomic database poised to impact SA skills shortage
The launch of the latest version of IBM’s DB2 Universal Database, code-named Stinger, is set to have a major positive impact on the shortage of database administration skills in South Africa. DB2 is the industry’s first autonomic database software solution, enabling it to automatically self-manage a
Introduction to MSSQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: Performing Incremental Cube Updates – An Introduction
(William Pearson) Having processed cubes in preceding articles, we are aware that processing calculates the aggregations that have been designed for the cube, and then loads the cube with the data, and the calculated aggregations of the data. While we have looked only at Full Processing in most
Make Code Robust With Flexible Queries
(Kathleen Dollard) In the past, if you needed extensive flexibility in data selection, you’d probably concatenate the query as a text string in your application. However, this concatenated Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks and platform-dependent, which suggests you should u