Microsoft has put a price tag of $599 on the Standard Edition of its Windows Small Business Server 2003 and at the same time has hiked the price of client access licenses for both upcoming 2003 editions of its small-business server software from $60 to $99.
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Enable Logical Object Representation in Your Database
by Sergey Savouchkine – This article discusses the three properties (complex data, type inheritance, and object behavior) that characterize the object-oriented database management system and explains how two object-relational languages (SQL3 and Zigzag) compare when used within each property.
SQLAgentCMDExec Permissions
I want to schedule a Microsoft Visual Basic® 6.0 executable (.exe) program by using the SQLAgentCMDExec account to create a job through SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Manager. The .exe program should use universal naming convention (UNC) paths to create a file on a shared directory on the SQL Server 7.0
Discover key features of DOM Level 3 Core, Part 2
In this two-part article, the authors present some of the key features brought by the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Working Draft and show you how to use them with examples in Java code. In this second part, they cover operations on the document, access to type information, and introd
XSL on the Client
by Jan Egil Refsnes – How the XML parser can be used to transform an XML document to an HTML document on the client.
A Compact Syntax for W3C XML Schema
by Erik Wilde – W3C XML Schema (WXS) is a very powerful and also a rather complex schema language. One of the problems when working with WXS is the fact that it uses an XML syntax, which makes schemas verbose and hard to read. In this article I describe a compact text-based syntax for WXS, called XM
IBM’s problem determination tutorials
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IBM Digs Deeper for Data
By Lisa Vaas – IBM has launched work on a research and development project that promises to extend the reach of its DB2 Information Integrator software until it can dig out data from every corner of an enterprise, whether inside or out of data warehouses, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of I
Microsoft Prices Low-End Small Business Server 2003 At $599
By Heather Clancy & Paula Rooney – Microsoft is slashing the price of its forthcoming entry-level Windows Small Business Server 2003 to $599 and will hike the head count limit on both the Standard and Premium editions to 75, Microsoft executives said at the XChange Conference 2003 Monday.
Oracle Optimizer: Moving to and working with CBO – Part 2
By Amar Kumar Padhi – Part 2 of this series covers the Initialization parameters and Hidden or Internal Oracle parameters that influence the Optimizer in choosing execution plans. It is very important to setup these parameters properly.