By Renee Boucher Ferguson – A report published Thursday suggests that the U.S. Department of Justice is readying its antitrust suit against Oracle Corp. stemming from the company’s bid to take over ERP rival PeopleSoft Inc.
Other News
DB2 Security Dinged Again
By Lisa Vaas – IBM’s DB2 UDB enterprise relational database has two more holes, adding up to a total of six reported within the past three weeks.
How To: Insert identity values using XML Bulk Load
You can use XML Bulk Load to insert records into tables that use identity columns. Here is a simple example to demonstrate how this can be done. First create a table in your database.
On-demand computing: My take
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger – Technology advances continue at their torrid pace. Moore’s Law is alive and well, the Internet is evolving in reach, capability and reliability, and new technologies like grid computing, Web services and intelligent software are enabling the integration of resources and
Building Distributed Database Apps in .NET Using BDP and DB2 UDB
By Ramesh Theivendran – This article introduces the basics of .NET remoting and shows how to remote data from one tier to another; and it shows how to convert the raw data into meaningful information.
Taking the Pulse of XML Editing
by Kendall Grant Clark – In February, roughly coincident with XML’s five year anniversary as a technology standard, I wrote an XML-Deviant column (“The Pace of Innovation”) in which I discussed the future of XML, focusing on what is widely thought to be a slackening of the pace of its innovation. Pe
Lawsuit Takes on Microsoft Security Flaws
Microsoft this week was served with a class-action lawsuit surrounding the platform’s vulnerabilities to worms and computer viruses. Legal action echoes assertions presented in a security report issued by an industry association in Washington last week.
Yes/No String
I have a string containing Yes/No answers to a series of questions. How can I quickly count the number of Yes answers and the number of No answers in the string?
MSDN TV: Rebuilding MSDN with Angle Brackets, Pt. 1
Watch Tim Ewald as he tours MSDN’s new XML pipeline, exploring how we use schemas, XPath, and XSLT to implement logic declaratively, along with a look at MSDN’s next steps.
XPath 2.0: The Trouble With Nodes
by Kurt Cagle – In a radical change from XPath 1.0, XPath 2.0 changes the way nodes are represented and allows you to incorporate logic into XPath expressions.