Book by George Reese – Unlike other books on this topic, which focus on a single way to do things, Java Database Best Practices takes you through a wide variety of different ways to store and access data, enabling you to learn which “persistence model” is most appropriate for each type of applicatio
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DB2 UDB Express offers the lowest entry price of any full function database
Looking to stretch the most out of your investment dollars? DB2 UDB allows you to start with a minimum investment without sacrificing functionality. Unlike other databases, DB2’s entry level pricing doesn’t require you to sacrifice database functionality. IBM delivers the same core database function
Managing on the Move
By Timothy Dyck – Expand Beyond’s PocketDBA 2.0 provides database administrators with a lightweight, HTML-based administration console for on-the-move management. The previous version, 1.4, was an Oracle-only product, but PocketDBA 2.0 broadens users’ options by including modules for Microsof
Book Review: SQL Server 2000 Fast Answers for DBAs and developers
Review by Vyas Kondreddi – This book is completely focused towards helping aspiring DBAs and database developers. It has answers for all those questions that generally trouble a budding DBA. Shows you how to setup an SQL Server, administer it, secure it and develop database code.
Control Replication with ActiveX
By Jeannine Hall Gailey – When you use ActiveX controls along with the administration functionality that SQL-DMO provides, you can programmatically administer, customize, and control an entire replication topology.
Bind XmlDocument Objects
by Dan Wahlin – Normally, you can’t bind an XmlDocument object directly to a control. But with just a few extra lines of code, you can convert it to a DataSet for the same result.
Online Exam using XML & ASP
by Mohamed Najeeb – This week we’re bringing you an online exam system that pulls it’s data from an xml file on the server. The question list for the user is sent to the browser via Microsoft’s XMLHTTP Object. Using this same object, the questions are retrieved from the server and displayed on the p
Oracle: The Database Comes First
by Demir Barlas – In a keynote entitled, “Spend Less, Know More,” delivered at Oracle AppsWorld in London, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison regaled listeners with his vision of IT’s past and future. Ellison believes that most companies have spent years overspending on IT, and wasn’t shy to include hi
What admins need to consider in advance of Yukon
By Margie Semilof – At the TechEd conference earlier this month, IT executives picked up a few details about Microsoft’s database strategy. First, the company said it would add reporting services for SQL Server 2000; they will appear sometime later this year. And, second, officials said that Microso
Rainbow-colored Relax NG
Hans Fugal has released a Vim syntax highlighting file for Relax NG compact syntax (RNC). It joins a couple of other options available for working with and viewing syntax-highlighted RNC schema instances: an Emacs mode and a set of stylesheets for generating HTML versions of RNC schemas.