(Dan Jurden) If you developed smart tags in Office XP, you’ll be interested in the changes in Office 2003. Smart tag technology links text to resources that provide relevant information useful in creating a document. Or even better, relevant information can be inserted right into the document itself
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Oracle Database Resource Manager, Part 2: Resource Plan Management
(Jim Czuprynski) The previous article in this series discussed the basic concepts of Oracle Database Resource Management (DRM) for managing database server resources. This next article moves beyond the conceptual phase and tackles building, maintaining, and monitoring resource consumer groups, resou
Introduction to Online XSL Tutorial
(Anjana Srikanth) Ever since the invention of the web, all web pages have been designed using predefined tags in HTML, or the HyperText Markup Language. The portable quality of these tags enables web documents to be viewed with ease in any browser anywhere in the world.
Worst Practice – Adding a Column Without Thinking!
(Andy Warren) It’s funny how the smallest things can trip you up. Stop and think for a minute – if one of your developers requests a column be added to a table, how much effort do you (or should you) expend to make sure it won’t break anything? (R)
Introduction to MSSQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: Reporting Options for Analysis Services Cubes: ProClarity Part II
(William Pearson) In Part I of this article, we returned to the objectives of an earlier subseries, Reporting Options for Analysis Services Cubes. As we stated in that set of articles, our focus was to respond to a constant request from readers: to explore options beyond the Analysis Manager / Samp
Updatable UNION ALL Views in DB2 Universal Database Version 8
(Serge Rielau) Partitioning UNION ALL views are commonly used to simplify data maintenance and to overcome scalability limits of single tables. This article describes how DB2 Universal Database Version 8 for Linux, UNIX and Windows enables you to insert, update, and delete through views defined with
Tuning IBM DB2 Databases for Intel Itanium 2-Based Systems
(Guojian Cai and Terry Sych) TPC-H is a well-known decision-support database benchmark that stresses database, platform, and I/O performance. Optimal performance of this workload requires that the hardware and software systems be fully tuned and optimized. This white paper describes the database set
Extending portals with DB2 Information Integrator
(C. M. Saracco) Using Enterprise Information Integration (EII) technology with Web portals can extend the reach of pre-built components and make it easier to develop custom components. In this article, we’ll explain why as well as show you how to get off to a quick start.
Import XML Data Into Microsoft Access
(Danny Lesandrini) Back in November 2003, I was assigned the task of creating an import routine that would refresh data in an Access 2000 database from an array of XML files. For some reason, I thought it would be easy, as in “one touch import” or something. As it turns out, it is not that easy.
Oracle Data Provider for .NET
(Rama Mohan G.) Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) is an implementation of a data provider for the Oracle database. ODP.NET uses Oracle native APIs to offer fast and reliable access to Oracle data and features from any .NET application.