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Oracle Pledges Linux Everywhere
By Mark Hachman – Following its pledge at last year’s LinuxWorld to develop all of its products for Linux, Oracle Corp. will now actually develop future products using the Linux operating system, an Oracle executive said Wednesday.
New and Improved String Handling
by Bob DuCharme – In my June column last year, I discussed XSLT 1.0 techniques for comparing two strings for equality and doing the equivalent of a “search and replace” on your source document. XSLT 2.0 makes both of these so much easier that describing the new techniques won’t quite fill up a colum
Navigate Hierarchical Datasets
(Zane Thomas) Drill down into hierarchical data—even if you don’t know its structure in advance.
Architecting your data center with XML
Although not yet a mainstream architecture for data centers, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is gaining momentum as a way to integrate legacy applications and build more robust data structures, according to analysts and business experts. XML enables enterprises to tag structured data so that it is
Microsoft Windows 2003 Exams Added to MCDBA Roster
Microsoft announced on its Web site recently that the new Windows 2003 exams currently under development can be used to fulfill the core networking requirements of the Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) on SQL Server 2000 credential.
Will MySQL become the next Linux?
By Dan Farber – MySQL AB had just $5 million in revenues last year, but company CEO Marten Mickos gives off the impression that his company could become the next Red Hat or Oracle. Is he serious or just hyping the open source database? I spoke with Mickos about his notion of a “commodity” database a
Performance Metrics
Not sure how to measure the performance of your DB2 database system? Joel Goldstein’s white paper offers suggestions for monitoring and benchmarking your server’s responsiveness.
Just the Stats, Ma’am (Part 2)
By Robert Catterall – In my previous column, I wrote about DB2 for OS/390 and z/OS monitor statistics detail reports (Quarter 2, 2003). I ended the column after covering data set open/close activity; in this column, I pick up the story with a quick look at some of the remaining report data blocks.
Review: xCase V. 6.01
xCase (RESolution, Ltd.) is a desktop data-modeling software package that has developed into a very useful, yet cost-effective, tool for everyday database design and maintenance in Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Visual FoxPro, Jet, or many other database platforms. Dan LeClair reviews the rec