(Ketan Patel) Datawatch recently released version 3.0 of VorteXML Designer. In addition to schema support, this new version includes several updates and features that further simplify the process of generating XML by enriching any text document.
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Certification Strategies
(Howard Fosdick) DBA certification requires significant time, effort, and expense, so you want to make sure you certify with the right product. My previous column compared the cost and effort necessary to certify as a DBA for DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. But questions remain: Which DBA cer
Hooking Up with IBM DB2 Universal Database Version 8 Using Java
(Kulvir Bhogul and Grant Hutchinson) The relational database serves as a location to persist data for many applications. Java programmers commonly use JDBC to interact with backend databases. This article shows you how to set up your environment to write Java programs that interact with IBM DB2 Univ
Best practices for tuning DB2 UDB v8.1 and its databases
(Fraser McArthur) Here’s the help you need for getting optimal performance out of your DB2® UDB database and its applications. The author takes a practical approach, discussing techniqes you can implement at various stages of development or to a production system, including techniques for database d
OPEN THE THROTTLE Tuning DB2 UDB v.8.1
When it comes to databases, users care about just one thing: performance. But tuning to improve performance can be tricky. Without a specific, measurable goal in mind, tuning can turn into an exercise in futility. (R)
Working with VARRAYs in Oracle Part III
(James Koopmann) This article is the third and last in the three part series, that has explored the use of VARRAYs in Oracle. This part will look at the performance implications if you should choose to use VARRAYS.
Extra headaches of securing XML
(Martin LaMonica) Extensible Markup Language and XML-based protocols are rapidly becoming a common way for businesses to format and exchange corporate information. But even as those Web services technologies are becoming widespread, companies are not fully aware of the associated security vulnerabil
Secure Web Services Using Identity Management
(Ashish Larivee) Web services provide the architecture for allowing different systems to interoperate. By removing many of the challenges associated with systems integration, Web services allow organizations to achieve significant business results with current systems.
Oracle Forms 10g – New Features
This paper focuses on the new features that have been added to Oracle Forms in Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Developer Suite 10J. Each new feature is explained in brief, with an outline of the feature and how it works. (PDF)
Searching an XML File with XSL and ASP
(Michael Qualls) This example assumes that you are familiar with ASP, XML and HTML 4.0. This article is the final installment in a series of articles on manipulating XML data with ASP. Before proceding with this article, I recommend that you read Saving HTML Form Data to XML, Editing XML with XS