By Barbara Darrow – IBM this week plans to formally unveil an Express version of its DB2 database that’s tailored for midmarket customers and their supporting partners.
Other News
IBM Lowballs DB2 Express Pricing
By Barbara Darrow – IBM DB2 Express will be priced as aggressively as some expected. The database, which will cost $499 per server plus $99 per named user, takes aim at small and midsize businesses and is available now, IBM said.
Giving SOAP a REST
by Amit Asaravala – Many developers will be surprised to learn that SOAP isn’t the only game in town for Web services interfacing. REST offers a perfectly good solution for the majority of implementations, with greater flexibility and lower overhead. Developers need to stop reaching immediately for
XML & Web Services Changes in .NET Framework 1.1
In April 2003, Microsoft released the .NET Framework version 1.1 (v1.1.4322). This article summarizes the changes to XML/Web services support in the .NET Framework version 1.1.
Microsoft Accelerates Reporting Services For SQL Server
By Barbara Darrow – In a change of plans, Microsoft now aims to roll out reporting services for the current SQL Server database release.
Microsoft Sheds Light on ‘Yukon’ Delay
By Peter Galli and Lisa Vaas – Microsoft Corp., influenced by customer feedback, is delaying the release of the next version of SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, so that it can do the necessary quality assurance and because the Visual Studio .Net team has asked for more time.
Designing XML Schema Libraries
Learn about designing schema libraries capable of modeling a wide range of programming language-specific type hierarchies in use today.
Scrapping DocBook
Norm Walsh writes, “There comes a point in the life cycle of any system when adding one more patch is the wrong solution to every problem. Eventually, it’s time to rethink, refactor, and rewrite. For DocBook, I think that time has come.”
Designing a New Schema with XML Design Patterns
by Kyle Downey – In this article we’re going to start a project to design an XML format that could be generated from IDL, TLB, XDT or any other representation of a portable component and then be read by any language that supports XML and further manipulated to generate GUI tools, documentation, and
Optimal DB2 performance with SQLJ and JDBC
JDBC and SQLJ are used to access databases in your Java programs. This tutorial introduces SQLJ and JDBC and covers some of the ways to take advantage of the features of SQLJ when accessing DB2 to achieve the best overall performance in your Java programs.