(John Ganci) This IBM Redbook and sample code provide IT Architects, IT Specialists, and Developers with the critical knowledge to design, develop, deploy, and manage a portal based document management system using IBM WebSphere Portal V5.0.2 and IBM DB2 Content Manager V8.2 (pdf)
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XML in localisation: Use XLIFF to translate documents
(Rodolfo M. Raya) The first article in this series briefly explained the most relevant XML standards used in the localisation industry. This second part focuses on XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) and explains with practical examples how to use it for translating different kinds of d
Experience Oracle OpenWorld
This year Oracle has combined two premier conferences, its business applications conference – Oracle AppsWorld – and its technology conference – OracleWorld – into one information-packed event you can’t afford to miss. Consolidating the conferences gives Oracle a single venue to present a comple
Fast Cache, Fresh Data
(Tim McCarthy) For most Web applications, caching relatively static database data in memory can boost application performance several fold. Caching not only takes some of the load off your database server, but it can also eliminate a network round-trip. Often, a Web application stores its cache
Notes and XQueries
(Edd Dumbill) Hero of the XML world this week, and appropriately named for the role, is Mike Champion. His contributions towards debate on XML standards and their creation have long been among the most enlightening and tolerable. Both of my summaries from the XML-DEV mailing list this week are taken
XML Structures for Existing Databases
In this chapter, we will examine some approaches for taking an existing relational database and moving it to XML. With much of our business data stored in relational databases, there are going to be a number of reasons why we might want to expose that data as XML: –Sharing business data wit
Retrieving ADO Recordsets from an Oracle Stored Procedure
James De Carli and Rama Ramachandran) Unlike SQL Server, PL/SQL does not allow us to execute a SELECT statement within a stored procedure without a corresponding INTO statement. This means we cannot easily return a recordset back to the calling client whether it is an ASP script or another PL/SQ
How to: Bind an Array to an ODP.NET Database Command
This document demonstrates how to execute a database stored procedure, multiple times in a single database round trip, using the "Array Binding" feature of ODP.NET. The "Array Binding" feature, whose usage is specified by the ArrayBindCount property of OracleCommand, allows each value in an arra
Unraveling the complexities of DB2 stored procedures – Webcast
(David Cohn) Listen and learn as our experts provide an overview of DB2 stored procedures on OS/390, the mechanisms for using them, and the SQL/PSM language. (R)
XmlSerializer and ‘not expected’ Inherited Types
(SimmoTech) This articles describes a problem I came across with XmlSerializer and the solution I eventually found. The ultimate solution is actually relatively simple but it took me nearly a full Thursday to figure out so the article is more about I how I got to the solution and the dead-ends o