Mike Devlin, general manager of IBM’s Rational division, will be top dog at the Rational Software Development User Conference this week in Dallas. When IBM finalized its $2.1 billion acquisition of Rational Corp. in February 2003, Devlin traded his CEO position for that of general manager of IBM Rat
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Oracle Tip: Generate SVG from Oracle Spatial data
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Inserting into Oracle Views and Using
Sometimes you need to update or insert into a view. But say your view has multiple tables like the outemp view: create or replace view outemp as select EMPNO,ENAME,JOB,MGR,HIREDATE,SAL,COMM,dname from emp e ,dept d where d.deptno = e.deptno
IBM LWWCM concepts and features with IBM DB2 CM as a repository
(Walter Mayer and Stephan Bolten) This article explains the solution architecture, main concepts, objects and features of IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management (LWWCM), Java Edition and the advantages of using IBM DB2 Content Manager as a repository. In addition this paper describes the impleme
Speed Tests: A Comparison Between .NET XML Web Services and .NET Remoting
(Hilton Giesenow) Prior to .NET, DCOM existed as Microsoft’s solution to remote object access. This technology leveraged the successful COM architecture to provide an infrastructure for remote communication. However, DCOM suffered from a variety of drawbacks and difficulties, and it ultimately led t
XML to SQL: Using SQLXML Bulkload in the .NET Framework
(Amar Nalla) XML has become the industry-wide standard for exchanging data across business systems. At the same time, the use of a relational backend as the data-store is well established. As developers, we are sometimes faced with the task of exposing existing relational data as XML to share it acr
An Interview with Michael Kay
(Bob DuCharme) Michael Kay is the author of Wrox press’s “XSLT Programmer’s Reference,” the standard reference work on XSLT, and the editor of the W3C’s XSLT 2.0 specification, which is currently in Working Draft status. His Java-based Saxon XSLT processor is one of the most successful and popular X
Supercharged Synchronization
(Bren Newman) Managing a distributed database system presents many challenges, not the least of which is the need to quickly synchronize updates. Transactional replication and merge replication are well-known, effective replication techniques, but each has limitations and can limit performance.
Making a Change in a World Without Windows: DB2 for z/OS Version 8 Provides Some New Options (Part 1)
(Susan Lawson) Trying to achieve a true 24×7 environment is almost impossible. Welcome to the “World Without Windows”. This is the reality of today’s high availability computing environments thrust upon us with the advent of e-business. 24×7 is really a test of how clever we are at hiding outages fr
Making Good Use of Sysforeignkeys Table – Part 1: Display table relationship diagram
(Jeffrey Yao) As a DBA, I am often required by clients to look into a database “created by a previous DBA who has left the company”. Among various jobs, one is to document the table relationships in the database because “the original documents are not updated to reflect the current status of the dat