(Uche Ogbuji) Binary XML has generated a lot of talk, and one of the motivators is the need for a less verbose transfer format, especially for use with Web services. One solution that is already at hand is data compression. This tip shows you how to use compression to prepare XML for transmission ov
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That Bee in My Bonnet is IBM DB2 UDB Stinger
(Paul C Zikopoulos) Stinger is the next release of DB2 UDB, and it’s chock full of new features that cut the time-to-value for your on demand solutions. It will feature enhancements for application development, vast improvements in lights-out operation and manageability, high availability, security,
Opening Microsoft’s Knowledge Vault
(Susan Kuchinskas) Microsoft announced a pilot program that will let partners add to its official Knowledge Base for the first time. The announcement made during the Redmond, Wash.-based software vendor’s Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit, along with three other recent moves, may be designed to
Optimizing Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services: Optimization Tools: Partition Wizard
(William E. Pearson, III) We briefly mentioned partitions in the first article of this series, Optimization Tools: The Storage Design Wizard, within which we introduced the Storage Design Wizard. The Storage Design Wizard, as we discovered, enables us to manage aggregations on a partition-by-partiti
DB2 Web Service Provider security
(Dirk Wollscheid) In this article, we explain how to enable security for a DB2 Web Service Provider application, which includes enabling authentication, setting authorization and making sure that messages are encrypted. We also explain how Web Service users can be mapped to database users.
The Java Connection
(Michael Otey) An estimated 8 million developers use Visual Basic (VB) 6.0—by far the most common language for writing SQL Server-based business applications. However, VB 6.0 isn’t the language of choice for many enterprise projects. VB 6.0 isn’t fully object oriented, and it relies on COM, can be d
XMSF Security: XML and DRM Issues
(Chenghui Luo) EXtensible Modeling and Simulation Framework (XMSF) is a web-based modeling and simulation framework that is designed to support development, analysis and training of operational tactical systems as well as commercial applications. In a military scenario, XMSF will enable better simu
Grouping support for user-defined aggregates in DB2 Universal Database
(Knut Stolze) In a previous article, Knut Stolze explained how to implement a user-defined aggregate function in DB2 UDB. Now he takes us a step further, and shows two different implementation techniques to support grouping for user-defined aggregates using Java.
Understanding MSBuild in Longhorn
(Jesus Rodriguez) The concepts of the build engine have changed in the recent years. As part of the code name Longhorn Microsoft propose a new build system named MSBuild. MSBuild defines what are going to be build as well as how are going to be build. In this article we explore the main MSBuild conc
Data Migration : Step by Step
(Chris Kempster) This article covers a wide variety of areas concerned with data migration. Primarily, it focuses on process, standards and some of the many issues to consider when undertaking this role. (R)