(Toufic Boubez) Traditional development produces applications that are closed to wide usage. Custom development is required to open these programs to wide-scale integration. In contrast, Web services applications are by default open to other systems and additional configuration is required to block
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Simplify Java XML Parsing with Jakarta Digester
(Srinivas C. Nallapati) The Digester framework is a high-level interface that parses an XML stream and populates the data into Java objects based on rules provided to the Digester component. Among the other XML parsing options available, the Digester package offers greater simplicity. With very
Connecting with Oracle: The Password Game
(Steve Callan) Trivia question of the day: Did Alan Ludden, the host of the 1970’s game show Password, ever use “password” as the secret password? If you missed out on that TV game show classic, not to worry. Oracle has a password game you can play. At one level, the rounds are easy, but in the bonu
Using Oracle Database 10g Data Pump Restart Capability
(Thomas B. Graves) Oracle Data Pump is a new feature in Oracle Database 10g that enables very high-speed movement of data and metadata between databases. This technology is the basis for Oracle’s new data movement utilities, Data Pump Export and Data Pump Import.
Patterns: Information Aggregation and Data Integration with DB2 Information Integrator
(Nagraj Alur) This redbook documents and prototypes the role of DB2 Information Integrator technologies and architecture in IBM’s “Patterns for e-business” using a typical customer loyalty e-business scenario. It is aimed at an audience of IT architects and data integration professionals responsible
MDX in Analysis Services: Mastering Time: Introduction to Moving Averages
(William Pearson) In this article, we resume the focus of a group of articles that began with Mastering Time: Change across Periods. In that article, as well as its immediate successor, Mastering Time: Period – to – Date Aggregations, we concentrated upon the Time dimension from the perspective
DTS packages may fail if you run multiple DTS packages that contain Analysis Services Processing tasks at the same time
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you receive one of the following error messages: Error message 1 Error = -2146828197 (800A005B) Error string: Object variable or With block variable not set Error source: DSO Error message 2 Error = -2147417848 (80010108) Error string: Object Invoked has dis
Performance Monitoring, Part 2
(Roger Sanders) In the first column of this series, I pointed out how DB2’s performance monitoring tools come into play in an organized, goal-oriented tuning effort. In short, they help you identify where performance is suffering and give you some idea of how to improve it.
Making good use of Sysforeignkeys table — Part 2 Check Table Relation
(Jeffrey Yao) When I sometimes have to review the design of a database which has been survived for a long time with various DBAs / developers adding a few tables here, modifying some columns there, and deleting some constraints anywhere, I must say I always try to find as many problems as possible a
Oracle users: Monthly patch cycle prudent
(Bill Brenner) Rob Sherman has never liked Microsoft’s monthly patching cycle. Whether a fix is available or not, he wants to be told about security holes immediately so he knows what to watch for. (R)