By Gareth Morgan – Larry Ellison has claimed that Oracle’s new software will revolutionise the way businesses organise their infrastructure. According to this plan, out goes the big iron and in come low-cost commodity Intel servers and the Oracle enterprise grid.
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Performance Considerations for Mining on DB2 Information Integrator for Content
By Rolf Bäurle Peter Gerstl – IBM DB2 Information Integrator for Content provides an information mining service that converts information that is implicit in unstructured documents to valuable metadata. This article gives you an overview of how to optimize information mining for performance.
oXygen adds limited Relax NG-driven editing support
SyncRO Soft has released version 2.0.4 of oXygen XML Editor, adding, among other new features, initial support for validated editing against Relax NG schemas. But that initial support has some shortcomings that make it of limited value in its current state.
Grab headlines from a remote RSS file
By Nicholas Chase – In this article, Nick shows you how to retrieve syndicated content and convert it into headlines for your site. Since no official format for such feeds exists, aggregators are often faced with the difficulty of supporting multiple formats, so Nick also explains how to use XSL tra
Marking Up Bureaucracy
by Paul Ford – If there is a perfect user of XML, it’s the huge, sprawling United States government. With thousands of diverse offices, from the Navy to National Park Service, each federal agency routinely exchanges gigabytes-worths of documents and data with other offices, businesses, and citizens.
Commodities and Identifiers
by Joe Celko – In my last column, I promised to discuss commodity identifiers: codes used to identify items that are handled in the aggregate, as a commodity.
EMC Airs Management Software for SMBs
By Clint Boulton – EMC VisualSRM and EMC VisualSAN Easy improve capacity utilization in addition to making management hands-free by automating tasks, a function that many software makers have been writing into their code to free systems administrators from the chores of manual operation.Spec
How many DB2 certifications are there? Where can I find a course that prepares me for the first certification?
Susan Visser responds – DB2 has eight current certification exams that can lead to seven different certification roles. The most common certification is DB2 Database Administration. Four exams cover v.7 content:
SQL Server Database Tool Helps Keep Aussie Beer Flowing
by Kathleen Wheatley – Australia has one of the highest per capita beer consumption rates in the world, a distinction that Alex Thomas, director of Didg Information Systems (www.didg.com) and an Aussie himself, knows about firsthand.Thomas was part of a team that structured, implemented and
Setting a Date for Interoperability
By Joe McKee – Calendaring standards are syncing up for collaboration.