By Steven Burke – Oracle is pushing fast and furious into the midmarket with its new lower priced Standard One Edition, a single CPU version of its database, but is staying pat with pricing on its upcoming 10g product.
Other News
IBM raises SMB ante with DB2 content manager offering
By Kate Evans-Correia – The battle for SMB supremacy is heating up. Oracle has baited the hook with a 9i sale and a crash course in 10g that covers basic database administration, performance and tuning, and important security concepts. IBM has its sights on being king of content with a slew of conte
Oracle 10g needs time
By Mark Street – Analyst firm Gartner last week warned firms to be careful about upgrading from Oracle’s 8i database to 10g, which supports grid computing.
Interim Yukon Beta Is Out
WinBeta.org has posted a notice to Yukon SQL Server testers, re: the PDC build of its next-gen database that Microsoft is planning to distribute in Los Angeles next week at its Professional Developers Conference.
XSL Conditional Choose
by Jan Egil Refsnes – How to let the XML parser conditionally choose the XML transformation.
J2EE: A Web Services Kit
by Peter Varhol – New platform features and APIs enhance Web services technologies in Java and bring platform-neutral Web services to the enterprise
Combine documents with XSLT
by Benoît Marchal – This tip explains how to write XSLT style sheets that process several documents. This is useful, among other things, for combining book chapters, merging a letter template and a list of addresses, creating tables of content that span several files, or — following the tip example
Think Differently About Set Relationships and Member Properties
SQL Server Magazine columnist Itzik Ben-Gan shows you a few tricks for set-based analysis of data relationships using the NOT EXISTS() predicate.
To-Paw Speeds Up Sports Simulation Game with .Net Code Profiler
by Jill R. Aitoro – In an effort to appeal to the commercial gaming industry, To-Paw Software needed to find a way to speed up the database connections and improve performance of the simulation engine for its interactive soccer manager program.
Is Your Tempdb Stressed Out?
By Brian Moran – Most SQL Server customers use tempdb a lot without realizing that heavy use of tempdb can cause resource-allocation contention and result in potentially serious performance problems. If you think tempdb is slowing down your system, check out this article.