Oracle’s bid for PeopleSoft, now including JDE, appears to have two goals: eliminating competitors and building a size that compares more favorably to SAP’s. Neither objective offers much to customers. Further, there’s considerable confusion over whether Oracle will support PeopleSoft product
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Application Performance Tuning for DB2 OS/390 and z/OS: Finding the Relevant Candidates
By Dirk Johann and Ralf Neumann – The prerequisite to implementing quality assurance measures is in recognizing and measuring relevant SQL changes in DB2 applications. This white paper introduces manual methods that can be used to determine such changes, and presents in addition a tool-supported sol
Database battle hots up
By Gareth Morgan – The cost of running high-end databases, and how they cope with external data sources, is becoming a key issue for vendors as the leading players attempt to fight off open source rivals.
XQuery and SQL: Vive la Différence
By Ken North – Sometimes SQL and XML documents get along just fine. Sometimes they don’t. A new query language is getting everything talking again.
What’s new in SQL Server Yukon
Yukon is Microsoft’s codename for the next version of SQL Server, due to be released in 2004. Tim Anderson talks to Euan Garden, Microsoft’s Product Unit Manager for SQL Server Tools.
Disaster Recovery Versus Disaster Prevention
By Martin J. Garvey – For many companies, disaster recovery means trying to minimize downtime as they try to restore systems and get them back online. A better approach, say experts, is to develop a plan that prevents a disaster from taking down systems in the first place.
MS to reveal more about reporting tools
By Margie Semilof – Microsoft said next month it will release more information about a reporting-service feature originally designed for Yukon database software, which will be available for SQL Server 2000 by the end of the year.
IBM forges ahead with DB2-Linux plans
By Robert Westervelt – Jeff Jones, IBM’s director of strategy for data management solutions, spoke recently with SearchDatabase.com about Big Blue’s Linux strategy for its DB2 customers. Jones refused to comment on SCO Group’s complaint that IBM, as part of its Linux strategy, illegally distributed
Oracle: Users should patch flaws ASAP
By Robert Westervelt – Oracle Corp.’s director of security product management is urging customers to install patches that will eliminate three security flaws in Oracle’s application server software and its E-Business suite.
Displaying Query Output in Long Row Format
by Krishna Sarabu – Here’s a way to display query output in Long Row format using table functions in Oracle9i. Being a developer, you might have been requested to write a query to display the query output in Long Row format. Well, the new table functions feature in Oracle9i might be the solution.