By Darryl K. Taft – Led by Microsoft Corp. and IBM, a group of companies Tuesday plans to announce a new Web services specification for handling security in Web services environments.
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IBM targets Microsoft with cheaper SMB products
By Antone Gonsalves – IBM wants to lure small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) away from Microsoft. It is doing that with software designed for this market and which are priced lower.<br><br>IBM already sells an Express version of its DB2 database for US$5,449 per 50 users, considerably less than
A Script to Find SQL Server Stored Procedure Dependencies
by Robbe Morris – If you want to script stored procedures in the correct order, then this script may help you out.
Free E-Books Can Help You Deliver Better BI Solutions
Brian Moran stumbled across two free Microsoft e-books that he thinks many SQL Server professionals will find valuable. Both books cover information that can help you use Microsoft technologies to deliver more effective BI and data-warehousing solutions.
The Road from Oracle8i to Oracle9i Certification
Follow along with James Koopmann as he travels the road from Oracle8i to Oracle 9i certification.
PeopleSoft clients look to stop Oracle takeover bid
Some PeopleSoft Inc. customers have rallied to stop Oracle Corp.’s $6.3 billion hostile bid to buy the business-software maker, and they’re not just defending PeopleSoft. The clients, who use PeopleSoft programs for payroll and accounting, want to protect their ability to choose database soft
Programs vs. Utilities
By Jim Ruddy – DB2 programmers: Are your DBAs holding out on you? If they haven’t told you about utility functions you could use instead of maintaining Cobol or C programs, you should probably ask them to. Programmers Only columnist Bonnie Baker suggested that I put together a column about some topi
IBM to Offer DB2 Mastery Exam
By Lisa Vaas – The new DB2 Problem Determination Mastery Exam is designed to give database administrators the skills to investigate and isolate database issues such as the implementation of workarounds or fixes; to deal with common installation issues such as upgrades, instance creation and license
The Big Picture: IBM DB2 Information Management Software
By Jeff Jones – DB2 UDB and the IBM DB2 information management portfolio represent one element of what IBM calls middleware, software that serves as the glue uniting systems and software applications. DB2 is one of five IBM Software brands: DB2, WebSphere®, Lotus®, Tivoli® and Rational. This article
Auditing Your SQL Server Environment Part I
(Randy Dyess) This article is the first of a series that I plan on writing and placing on my website to help other DBAs in auditing a new SQL Server environment. This article deals with determing which SQL Server logins have weak passwords, with the definition of weak being, no password, password th