By Ellen O’Brien – IBM has signed an agreement to acquire Santa Clara, Calif.-based CrossAccess Corp., a software company specializing in real-time access and data integration.The acquisition means that IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator software, announced earlier this year, will have more of
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A new encoding to replace entities?
Tim Bray and John Cowan have published an IETF Internet Draft in order to define a new XML encoding for expanding HTML and MathML entities.
Send and receive SOAP messages with SAAJ
In this tip, author and developer Nicholas Chase shows you how to use the SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) to simplify the process of creating and sending SOAP messages.
Using Embedded XML Databases to Process Large Documents
by Mark Wilcox – I propose as an alternative the use of an embedded XML database so that you can continue to utilize DOM for processing but without eating all of your memory. Additional benefits include persistence and data manipulation capabilities of XML databases which can make future processing
How do you setup SqlXml 3.0 on Windows Server 2003?
This question comes up quite often in the newsgroups. Here are the steps to getting this setup.
Import text files script
This process will import text files that arrive in a directory into a table. It will process every file in the directory with the correct filemask and move the file to an archive directory on completion. It can be used in conjunction with an ftpget SP to import files from a ftp server (see ftp).
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.
IBM Encryption for IMS and DB2 Databases
IBM Data Encryption for IMS and DB2 Databases provides you with a tool for both IMS and DB2 in a single product, enabling you to protect your sensitive and private data for IMS at the segment level and for DB2 at the table level. IBM Data Encryption for IMS and DB2 Databases is implemented using sta
Smart Wells and Smarter Databases
By Joe Lumbley – Telegnomic uses Informix Dynamic Server and DataBlades to pump intelligence from reservoirs of information.
Oracle extends 8i support
By Mark Street – Oracle has again extended maintenance support for customers of its 8i database on many major platforms, this time until 2005, giving firms another year to migrate to 9i or 10g.