By Renee Boucher Ferguson – Product lifecycle management users and project management managers are getting a boost this week with new functionalities from Oracle Corp.At its AppsWorld London conference Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., announced Tuesday the availability of its Oracle Advanc
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Web-based XML Editing with W3C XML Schema and XSLT, Part 2
by Ali Mesbah, Arjan Vermeij – This article describes a concept in which elements can be inserted into an XML instance document through an automatically created form-based GUI, based on the XML Schema of the instance document.
IDUG Insight: Better BI Performance
By David Beulke – DB2 UDB version 8.1 for Linux, Unix, and Windows provides many built-in business intelligence (BI) features. Materialized query tables are one of the most interesting.
DB2 Planning: DB2 V8.1 Family Fundamentals certification prep, Part 1 of 6
By Paul Zikopoulos – This tutorial introduces the basics of the DB2 products and tools, along with the concepts of data warehousing and OLAP. It is the first in a series of six tutorials designed to help you prepare for the DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamentals Certification (Exam 700).
IBM Spices Up Its Content Manager
IBM next year will release a tool—code-named Cinnamon—that will enable its Content Manager software to more easily index and search XML data.Cinnamon is a result of Clio, an ongoing research project at IBM’s Almaden Research Center that aims to develop a tool for automatically creating mappi
Attaching and Detaching Databases on SQL Server
Alexander Chigrik explains how to move a database, or database file to another server or disk using sp_detach_db and sp_attach_db system stored procedures to detach the database and then attach it again.
It’s Official: SOAP 1.2 Is a Standard
By Darryl K. Taft – The World Wide Web Consortium has released Version 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) as a formal standard. The Cambridge, Mass.-based W3C released SOAP 1.2 as a full W3C Recommendation Tuesday, the organization’s language for making a specification an officia
Regular Expressions in T-SQL
From SQLTeam – This article comes to us from Cory Koski. Cory writes “I recently had the problem of trying to search for a regular expression in a database field. There is no version of SQL Server that supports regular expressions natively, but I discovered a way to add all sorts of regular expressi
XML-based portals equal less Web services pain
By Matt Hines – Experts at last week’s DCI show said that the portal is becoming a crucial infrastructure component of Web services, and that basing them on standards such as XML will help enable future Web services implementations.
Transact-SQL Debugger Limitations and Troubleshooting Tips for SQL Server 2000
This article describes the limitations of Transact-SQL Debugger in SQL Server 2000. This article also provides guidelines and directions to troubleshoot basic problems related to Transact-SQL Debugger. However, this is not an exhaustive list, and some problems may be specific to your environment.