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RealNetworks open sources SMIL 2.0 implementation
Rob Lanphier from RealNetworks writes with news that they have released their implementation of the W3C’s Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language as open source.
Backing Up and Restoring SQL Server Databases and Transaction Logs
SQL Server provides several methods to protect against data loss. Alexander Chigrik explains of the various methods.
Download: Get statistics for nicknames
DB2 Information Integrator enables your applications to query and retrieve data located on other sources. To help the federated optimizer make better decisions, you can use these utilities to gather statistics on relational and nonrelational nicknames.
Saved by the APAR or How to Use IBM’s Self Help Web Support
IBM’s Self Help Web Support is a great starting point for finding answers about DB2 database software. Marin Komadina shares tips on getting the most out of this resource.
KeepTool Announces Pre-release of Version 6 of its Oracle Database Tools
German company, KeepTool, has made public a pre-release of Version 6 of its Oracle database tools – Hora, ER Diagrammer, and PL/SQL Debugger.
Database Servers Making Evolutionary Progress
By Timothy Dyck – Since we performed our comparative database server performance tests, there’s been incremental change in the products but no big shifts in any server’s design or market presence. IBM’s DB2 8.1 has superseded Version 7.2, and the 8.1 release supports many more online configur
Oracle: E-mail server making connections
By Alorie Gilbert – Oracle’s recent foray into the e-mail server market, where it faces steep competition from Microsoft and IBM, is starting to pay off, the company says.
XML Schema Object Model (SOM)
Describes the classes used for building and manipulating XML Schemas (XSD) by providing an XmlSchema class to load and edit a schema.
Saving HTML Form Data to XML
by Michael Qualls – Usually form submissions are written to some sort of text file or database. If you need your form submission data to be more portable, however, it can be written to an XML file. This article will show you how.