By Darryl K. Taft – Tying into a major theme of the JavaOne conference here this week, Oracle Corp. Tuesday previewed its new Application Development Framework, a feature of the company’s next version of its Oracle9i JDeveloper tool that will enable developers to more easily develop enterprise Java
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J.D. Edwards Says Oracle May Be Violating Antitrust Laws In PeopleSoft Bid
By Beth Bacheldor – Kicking off his company’s annual user conference Monday, J.D. Edwards & Co. chairman, president, and CEO Bob Dutkowsky said Oracle’s $5.1 billion bid late last week to buy PeopleSoft Inc. could ultimately violate antitrust laws because it will reduce customer choice.
Architectural Overview of XML in the .NET Framework
This section provides an architectural overview of XML in the .NET Framework. The design goals for the XML classes in the .NET Framework are:
JSR 225: XQuery API for Java
IBM and Oracle have submitted a Java Specification Request to “define a set of interfaces and classes that enable an application to submit XQuery queries to an XML data source and process the results of these queries.”
A Community Update
by Kendall Grant Clark – A bulletin from the XML developer community covering the growth of RELAX NG adoption, discussion on the W3C’s approach to criticism and an update on the YAML experiment.
BMC Hones Data Management Tools for DB2
By Lisa Vaas – BMC Software Inc. is rolling out support for IBM DB2 Universal Database in its SmartDBA data management software family of products, the company announced at the International DB2 Users Group conference, in Las Vegas.
SQL Bible
Book by Alex Kriegel and Boris M. Trukhnov – Covers the latest version of the ISO SQL standard (SQL-99) and gives readers information they need to know about the differences in vendor-specific SQL implementations including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2
Tutorials: DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Version 8 DBA Certification (701) Preparation
This series of six free tutorials is designed to help you prepare for the DB2 Version 8 DBA (Exam 701) certification exam. These tutorials provide the solid base knowlege needed to attain the certification “IBM Certified Database Administrator – DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, and UNIX.”
Writing Cached High Performance Database Applications
by Larry Ashworth – Many otherwise outstanding applications fail miserably due to database performance issues. Caching is a commonly used method of accelerating applications, but cache aging, data integrity, and multi user issues make caches difficult to implement at the application level. As a serv
Using Microsoft SQL Server Constraints
By Alexander Chigrik – In this article, I want to tell you about SQL Server constraints: what a constraint is, when it is used and for which purposes. You can find in this article some examples of constraint creation and SQL Server 2000 constraints enhancements.