By Ellen O’Brien – OracleWorld 2003 opens Monday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., and the five-day technology event comes at a time when Oracle is under intense scrutiny within the IT industry.
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OASIS Open Office XML format technical committee adopts Relax-NG as its “working language”
Relax-NG to be used during the specification work, and DTDs and W3C XML schemas based on the Relax-NG schema to be produced when the specification is finished.
Edit WSDL Documents
by Dan Wahlin – If you need to edit WSDL documents or create them from scratch, check out two products that provide a visual representation of WSDL. They can simplify the process and save you time.
Make the most of Xerces-C++, Part 2
This two-part article offers an introduction to the Xerces-C++ XML library. Here in Part 2, Rick Parrish demonstrates how to load, manipulate, or synthesize a Document Object Model (DOM) document, and how to recreate the bar graph in Part 1 using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). C++ programmers who r
Memory Leak Problems with SP3
By Brian Moran – In SP3, Microsoft made changes to the way SQL Server allocates metadata for ODBC statements, causing memory leaks in some cases. SP3 users should at least consider upgrading to SP3a.
Updating SQL Server Connection Properties from the DTS Package INI File
Muthusamy Anantha Kumar steps through updating the connection properties from the DTS package INI file during run time.
SQL Server Connection Pooling Myths
by Shawn Kresal – Many of us are already familiar with connection pooling and understand to some degree its importance in web and SQL Server programming. We’ve all heard the adage that “connections are expensive” and “pooling is good”. This article will examine the topic in more detail, bringing to
BMC Software® and GoldenGate Software Form Alliance
BMC Software. Inc. and GoldenGate Software announced a sales, marketing and technology alliance. The alliance enables BMC Software to extend its SmartDBA data management portfolio with the addition of GoldenGate’s data synchronization capabilities, creating the industry’s first complete data managem
Five Performance Rules for Developing DB2 Web Applications With C# Builder
By Glenn Stephens – Speed. Scalability. These are the mantras of Internet development and they are not necessarily difficult to achieve. Applying a few simple rules can mean the difference between a slow or fast Internet application. In this article, you will learn five rules for developing fast Mic
Integrating with DB2 XML Extender
By David Beulke – As system integration and exchanging data with business partners becomes increasingly important, XML and data types such as character large objects (CLOBs), LOBs, and user-defined types (UDTs) become important standards. DB2 easily integrates unstructured data, XML, and other data