(Kendall Grant Clark) In this week’s XML-Deviant column I am continuing my slog through the W3C TAG’s Architecture of the World Wide Web (AWWW). In last week’s column I examined some of the key issues surrounding the second of the AWWW’s key architectural principles, namely, interaction. I will conc
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Embarcadero Job Scheduler 3.1 Broadens IBM DB2 Support and Enterprise Functionality
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of application and data lifecycle management solutions, announced expanded functionality for job scheduling across distributed, cross-platform enterprise environments with the general availability of Embarcadero Job Scheduler 3.1. Job Scheduler
Why XML 1.1?
(Eric van der Vlist) I’d better say it right now, though XML 1.1 and namespaces in XML 1.1 do not include that many changes compared to XML 1.0 and namespaces in XML 1.0, these changes are enough to break the compatibility: a well formed XML 1.1 document isn’t necessarily a well formed XML 1.0 docum
A Technical Discussion of Row Level Locking
Concurrency has always been an important issue with database systems. As well, in today’s systems the trend is towards self managing of memory to reduce DBA cost of management. DB2 has designed its locking mechanisms to address both issues simultaneously. Oracle is claiming that DB2s lock memory man
Handling an SQLException under the DB2 Universal JDBC Driver
As in all Java programs, error handling is done using try/catch blocks. Methods throw exceptions when an error occurs, and the code in the catch block handles those exceptions. JDBC provides the SQLException class for handling errors. All JDBC methods throw an instance of SQLException when an er
Chapter 5: Reading XML
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) Writing XML documents is very straightforward, as I hope Chapters 3 and 4 proved. Reading XML documents is not nearly as simple. Fortunately, you don’t have to do all the work yourself; you can use an XML parser to read the document for you. The XML parser exposes the content
Oracle SQL*Loader Overview
SQL*Loader is the primary method for quickly populating Oracle tables with data from external files. It has a powerful data parsing engine that puts little limitation on the format of the data in the datafile. SQL*Loader is invoked when you specify the sqlldr command or use the Enterprise Manager in
External Tables in Oracle 9i
(Ajay Gursahani) This article gives a brief understanding about External tables. External Tables are defined as tables that do not reside in the database, and can be in any format for which an access driver is provided. This external table definition can be thought of as a view that allows running a
PeopleSoft’s Board Rejects Oracle’s Latest Bid
(Renee Boucher Ferguson) Citing advice from Goldman, Sachs and Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., PeopleSoft Inc.’s board of directors urged shareholders this morning to reject Oracle Corp.’s latest tender offer.
Snapshot Replication for the Beginner – Part 2
(Andy Warren) This is a follow up to an earlier article called Snapshot Replication for the Beginner. This week we’ll actually get some data pushed to a subscriber! At the end of the previous article we had completed construction of a publication containing one table, so we’ll pick up from there. (