(Bernhard Borges, Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani) In many respects, SOA is an evolution of the fundamental tenets governing component-based development (CBD). It also represents a quantum leap in bringing business and information technology into closer alignment through a set of SOA services ground
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Installation Cookbooks: Deploying Reports on the Web
(Steve Callan) In a previous article, I discussed a deployment framework for getting Forms on the Web. This article discusses the steps to get your Reports on the Web. I’ll cover the steps to use Reports-related built-in’s in your forms, how to “tell” your forms the name of your report server, h
Oracle president addresses image, app software decline
(Robert Westervelt) Oracle Corp. president Charles E. Phillips Jr. addressed publicly for the first time the company’s souring public image amid his company’s 15-month battle to acquire application software vendor PeopleSoft Inc. In an interview with SearchOracle.com, Phillips acknowledged that t
The Bowling Challenge
(Andy Warren) I wrote an article recently (Is all code really code? One question from an interview) that discusses why I think developers look at TSQL as being "different" than "real" code. The article definitely provoked a good discussion, you may find it interesting just for that part alone. So wh
Shared page locks can be held until end of the transaction and can cause blocking or performance problems in SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3)
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3), shared page locks can be held until the end of the transaction. This behavior may lead to blocking or performance problems.
Data extractor for a flat record
(Kevin Nilson) This subprocedure extracts data from a flat record (no dds), tab delimited, comma delimited, etc. It uses the field delimiting character and the positional number in the record to identify the desired data. So if I wanted to get the data from the ninth field of and EDI document, I wou
XMP Lowdown
(Bob DuCharme) The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a specification describing RDF-based data and storage models for metadata about documents in any format. The specification includes information about embedding XMP in text files such as HTML and SVG/XML; image formats such as JPEG, TIFF, and G
Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside
(Pat Helland) This article explores Service Oriented Architecture, and the differences between data inside and data outside the service boundary. Additionally, it examines the strengths and weaknesses of objects, SQL, and XML as different representations of data, and compares and contrasts these mod
Enabling the Commit Button in an ADF Application
(Duncan Mills) A confused ADF user has a problem with the commit button in a ADF BC bound JSP Page. Dragging the Commit operation from the Data Control Palette onto the page creates the button to trigger the event OK but when you run the page the button is disabled… Why? and how can you make the c
Uploading a Large Number of Records in DB2
(Gautham Muthuravichandran) When you’re carrying out an database-intensive operations, like trying to insert a lot of records in one transaction or opening a bunch of connections at the same time, you run the risk of encountering various database configuration-related issues. Below are some of the f