(Aaron Skonnard) XML’s ubiquity and continually improving tool support has created a magnetism that attracts organizations everywhere. As organizations move to XML, they must also provide a coherent data migration strategy that allows their users to bring old files forward. This is a nontrivial
Other News
DB2 versus SQL Server administrators
(Craig Mullins) What are the functional differences between a DB2 administrator and a SQL Server 2000 administrator? (What does a SQL Server 2000 administrator need to know/learn in order to handle DB2?)
Six Security Secrets Attackers Don’t Want You to Know
(Aaron C. Newman) How secure is your data? Looking at your information management resources through a would-be intruder’s eyes can help you find (and fix) vulnerabilities.
Managing content in an employee workplace, Part 2: Define a document-centric workflow
(Tinny Ng) In this second article in the series about managing content in an employee workplace, the author describes how to create a document-centric workflow. Using IBM DB2 Content Manager Document Routing Version 8.2, the team addresses the workflow management challenges in their solution.
Building a Basic Flash MX Page with ASP.NET and SQL Server
(Samuel Cromer) This how-to article describes how to create a basic Flash MX login interface that utilizes ASP.NET and SQL Server 2000.
Oracle’s rose-colored grid vision
(Ellen O’Brien and Robert Westervelt) More than six months ago, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison announced to thousands of OracleWorld attendees that grid computing was going to rock their IT worlds. (R)
Panel discusses SQL, XML, Web Services, and Grid Computing
(Ron Bourret) In a panel discussion at Software Development 2004 entitled “Marrying SQL, XML, Web Services and Grid Computing”, Peter Coffee of eWEEK magazine best summarized the state of these four technologies when he said that customers would not abandon SQL, wanted to use XML to repurpose data,
Generating XML from SQL data
(Jim Mason) You are an RPG programmer. You could use the XML parser APIs on the iSeries to learn how to do DOM or SAX parsing to generate XML documents. Good idea? No! Learn how to easily generate XML from SQL WITHOUT CODING using WDSC. We’ll look at WDSC’s easy-to-use wizards that generate basic
IBM Jumps Into Search-Technology Fracas
(James Maguire) IBM is set to unveil an upgraded version of its enterprise-level search technology. Code-named “Masala,” the new software is an improvement on Big Blue’s DB2 Information Integrator released last year. It is expected to enable simultaneous search of the Web, internal applications and
DB2 Universal Data Base V8.1 Certification: Backup and Recovery
(Roger Sanders) This chapter introduces you to the backup and recovery tools that are available with DB2 universal database, and to show you how to both backup a database on a regular basis and restore a database if it becomes damaged or corrupted.