(Clint Boulton) It’s no secret that Oracle has been considering a dip in the enterprise content management well, especially after companies like Microsoft, IBM and EMC made such a splash in the sector over the last year. This week, research group Ovum revealed that the Oracle enterprise content
Other News
Errors Generated if TCP/IP DDM Server on AS/400 Not Started
If the TCP/IP DDM Server on the AS/400 is not started, the following data providers cannot connect over TCP/IP: –Microsoft OLE DB Provider for AS/400 –VSAMMicrosoft OLE DB Provider for DB2Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2
T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2005
(Bob Beauchemin, Niels Berglund and Dan Sullivan) Sql server 2005 includes new Transact-SQL (T-SQL) functionality. The enhancements span the range from an alternative mechanism for transaction isolation to declarative support for hierarchical queries. And statement-level recompilation even improves
Programmatically using ADO.NET and XML
(Xinjie Zhang) ADO.NET can be used as a powerful XML middleware. Although coming from ADO, it has been entirely redesigned for a better support for Web applications. A main feature of ADO.NET is its disconnected recordsets, known as DataSet. It acts as a feature-rich in-memory database or data cache
Render PDF apps using DB2 XML Extender
(Naveen Balani) This tutorial shows developers how to render PDF applications using DB2 XML Extender, WebSphere Studio Application Developer (Application Developer) and the Apache Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) project. (R)
How to Execute SQL Stored Procedures from Microsoft Access
(Danny Lesandrini) The simplicity and popularity of SQL Server means that more and more developers who build applications with Microsoft Access will want to learn how to take advantage of server side processing using SQL Server Stored Procedures. The following article will demonstrate a simple meth
Programming With XMLBeans
(Abhinav Chopra) Get an in-depth look at the features and functionality of XMLBeans. This article introduces the technology with a simple example, takes you through the step-by-step process of compilation and binding, and discusses advanced features like XML cursors, tokens, and XQuery expressions.
Get More out of SQL Server’s Web Assistant Wizard
(Ruben Heetebrij) The Wizard can take care of all the formatting and lead you through the creation of a Web page step by step. In addition, you can point SQL Server’s Web Assistant Wizard at the tables that contain the data you want to retrieve or monitor. Thus, query skills are not required eit
Uncle Sam’s Semantic Web
(Paul Ford) What did the Semantic Web have to do with the war in Iraq? Not enough, says Jim Hendler, who heads the Mindswap Semantic Web research laboratory at the University of Maryland, speaking at the 2004 Semantic Technologies for e-Government Conference in McLean, Virg., held Sept. 8-9, 2004.
Get Your Stored Procedures Ready for Anything
(Drew Georgopulos) Permissions are restricted in most environments. Even in development environments, only members of the sysadmin and serveradmin fixed server roles can execute the sp_sdidebug and sp_addmessage extended procedures to grant use of SQL Server’s debugger and custom error messages, lea