(John Kirkley) With the millions of Web applications that have been developed over the years, it seems logical that the industry would have found a standards-based way to deal with the many graphical user interface (GUI) and presentation issues associated with them.
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Index Compression vs. Retrieval Time of Inverted Files for XML Documents
(Norbert Fuhr and Norbert Gövert) Query languages for retrieval of XML documents allow for conditions referring both to the content and the structure of documents. In order to process these queries efficiently, inverted files must contain also structural information, thus leading to index sizes that
Online Utilities
(Paul Zikopolous, George Baklarz, Dirk Deroos and Roman Melnyk) DB2 UDB v8 has the capability of reorganizing both tables while users have full read or write access to these objects. Along with an enhanced REORG TABLE command, there is a new REORG INDEXES command. (pdf)
FIX: You receive error message 7410 when you use a distributed query as a query parameter for the xp_sendmail stored procedure or the sp_makewebtask stored procedure in SQL Server 2000
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3), when you pass a distributed query to the @query parameter of the xp_sendmail stored procedure or the sp_makewebtask stored procedure, the procedure may fail and you may receive the following error message: Server: Msg 7410, Level 16, State 1,
An Introduction To Linked Servers
(Krishna Sonti) A Linked Server is a Link to an external (remote) data source. The remote data source can be Oracle, Access, Excel or any other data source that uses an OLE DB provider. (R)
Introduction to the Oracle Globalization Development Kit
If you need to internationalize your business by adding support for more countries and languages to your Oracle J2EE business applications; or you already support an international operation but would like to consolidate to one application and Oracle database and manage everything from one central p
DFSMShsm Fast Replication Technical Guide
(Mary Lovelace) DFSMShsm Fast Replication provides DFSMShsm management for the use of volume-level fast replication. Fast replication is made possible by exploiting the FlashCopy capability of the IBM Enterprise Storage Server. With this capability, a set of storage groups can be defined as a copy p
Practical data binding: JaxMe – The new kid on the block
(Brett McLaughlin) The previous installments of this column gave you a thorough overview of JAXB, so you’re now ready to study varying data binding implementations. This article begins an in-depth look at JaxMe, an open source implementation of JAXB. In addition to offering several enhancements
FIX: You receive an error when you try to update the fields in the dataset of a report in Report Designer
In Report Designer, if you use a graphical user interface control such as the Refresh Fields button in the Data view of a report, and you try to update the fields of the dataset of the report, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following: Could not generate a list of fields f
Security and SQL Server
(Tom Rizzo) When companies first started deploying databases, internal security was the biggest concern for IT departments. Databases were locked down in a datacenter with limited access via discrete applications and most IT administrators were only worried about internal users accessing confidentia