By Kevin Komiega – Database-archiving specialist Princeton Softech says that the latest version of its archiving software, Archive for Servers 5.2, meets auditing, reporting, business and legislative compliance requirements for relational database content that is archived and managed by EMC Corp.’s
Other News
Mining For ‘Yukon’ Nuggets
It sounds like “Yukon” Beta 1 is still 30 to 60 days out (and will be a closed beta with prearranged participants, anyway). But that won’t stop Microsoft from talking turkey about its next version of SQL Server, at the TechEd conference. We’ve been conversing since last fall with Randy Hollow
Converting between Java objects and XML with Quick
By Brett McLaughlin – Quick is an open source data binding framework with an emphasis on runtime transformations. This instructional article shows you how to use this framework to quickly and painlessly turn your Java data into XML documents, without the class generation semantics required by other
Extreme XML: EXSLT: Enhancing the Power of XSLT
Dare Obasanjo shows you how to implement an extension library containing over 60 functions that add support for features such as regular expressions, set based operations, and date-time processing to XSLT.
XML Transactions for Web Services, Part 1
by Faheem Khan – This first article in three part series describing transactional web services introduces the service oriented architecture, federation of web services, and the need for coordination and transactions.
PocketDBA 2.0 Supports Top Three Databases
Expand Beyond Corp. announced the latest release of PocketDBA(TM) mobile software for database administration, which supports Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 UDB databases. With PocketDBA, organizations can control any number of the world’s top three databases from a single wireless console, be it laptop
Keeping step with Kalido, Inc.’s Stephen Pace
By Ellen O’Brien – Stephen Pace was a DBA who crossed the line — to sales, that is. The Houston-based sales consultant worked as a C++ developer and a DBA for Shell Oil, the company that developed a warehousing project called Kalido to meet the demands of an enterprise with 85 operational un
Support: MDAC Conflict with SQL Server 7.0 Clustered Nodes
A conflict has been discovered between SQL Server 7.0 clustering and MDAC versions 2.5x and later. See this support article for details.
How to search for date and time values using Microsoft SQL Server 2000
By Vyas Kondreddi – Everything you need to know about searching datetime data (date and time values, also known as temporal data). This article discusses how the date and time values are stored in SQL Server, and shows you how to search and extract data from these datetime columns, with complete exa
Basic Oracle space monitoring scripts
By James Giordano – In order to keep your Oracle databases running 24×7, you’re going to need some basic monitoring scripts. Here are a few that I wrote for the HP platform.