by Kendall Grant Clark – Simon St.Laurent — a book editor for O’Reilly — started the conversation on the XML-DEV mailing list as a result, or so I suspect, from his having attended various editorial meetings leading up to O’Reilly’s FOO Camp earlier in the month. I was fortunate enough to attend o
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DB2 Connect Quick Beginnings for UNIX
Find out how you can use the command line processor to enter DB2 commands, SQL statements, and operating system commands.
Oracle e-mail product gets BlackBerry support
(Joris Evers) Oracle Corp. has partnered with a small Canadian software company to allow users of its Oracle Collaboration Suite e-mail product to access their mail on BlackBerry handhelds.
Oracle Identity Management and single sign on address security and cost challenges faced by today’s enterprises in the Middle East
(Anne-Birte Stensgaard) Oracle Corporation today announced that Oracle Identity Management and single sign on are helping organizations strengthen security, comply with regulatory requirements and reduce administrative costs, as they increase access to applications.
24×7 DB2 applications tips for good design, part 1
(Predrag Jovanovic) This article is intended to help project teams in designing DB2 applications intended to work 24×7. Such applications are very important, and there are many ways to bring data to the end user, apart from traditional mainframe terminals. Some of the new technologies, like the Inte
Compiling DB2 UDB Stored Procedures with GCC on Windows
(Jim Haungs) Historically, using stored procedures in DB2 has required a separately installed (and sometimes costly) C compiler. The solution outlined in this document describes how to install and use the GNU C Compiler (GCC), a free open-source C compiler.
Simulating Oracle Sequences in Microsoft SQL Server & ColdFusion
(James Thornton) The problem with using identity columns as primary keys for Web development is that identities are generated at the time of insert, and you can’t pull them into your application code prior to inserting the row. This means that a user could double click the submit button resulting in
More Trees & Hierarchies in SQL
(Rob Volk) Hierarchies are sometimes difficult to store in SQL tables…things like trees, threaded forums, org charts and the like…and it’s usually even harder to retrieve the hierarchy once you do store it. Here’s a method that’s easy to understand and maintain, and gives you the full hierarchy
XQuery: A Guided Tour
XQuery is not only a query language, but also a language that can do fairly general processing of XML. It is a strongly typed language that works well with data that may be strongly or weakly typed. Because the types used in XQuery are the same types used in XML and XML Schema, the type system is a
.NET tools to be bundled in next SQL Server
By Margie Semilof – After two decades with the same underlying technology, SQL Server is in need of a facelift, Microsoft says. At the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft vice president Gordon Mangione revealed some early features of Yukon, the next version of the database management syste