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New IBM eServer p690 adds on-demand features
By Peter Williams – IBM has refreshed its eServer pSeries AIX (Unix) server range with faster Power4+ processors and on-demand features. IBM also plans to offer applications such as its DB2 database and Tivoli management software on-demand in the autumn. These will be priced by the day, when
Issues with Implementing UNICODE for DB2 in UNIX ODBC
Issues with Implementing UNICODE for DB2 in UNIX ODBC; Think you can get UNICODE support from IBM’s DB2 ODBC driver on UNIX? Nope. Learn more.
Microsoft Struggles To Get Yukon Beta Out The Door
By Barbara Darrow – The clock is ticking on Yukon. Microsoft has promised the first real beta of its next-generation database for the first half of the year. Depending on how first half is defined, that gives the company just over a month. Company sources said the push is on internally to del
New IBM DB2 offering addresses integration needs
By Ellen O’Brien – Taking on new, competitive territory, IBM Corp. unveiled DB2 Information Integrator software, which is designed to deal with data stored in products from competing vendors and various sources.
SQL Server for CE 2000 and RDA with eVB
This application collects data in a SQL Server 2000 CE database on the PocketPC. When connectivity becomes available, the eVB application pushes new records from the local SQL database to the server.
Securing SQL Server
By Brian Moran – In the aftermath of the Slammer worm, Microsoft Vice President of SQL Server Gordon Mangione explores why customers aren’t applying patches, shares how Microsoft plans to solve these problems, and looks to the future of security for SQL Server.
Oracle Update in the Wings
By Lisa Vaas – Database administrators committed to Oracle Corp.’s namesake database gathered last week at the International Oracle User Group conference in Orlando, Fla., and discussed the impending beta release of the company’s next big database upgrade.
Sun, Oracle meet on Web services
By Martin LaMonica – Sun Microsystems and Oracle plan to attend the first meeting to discuss a proposed Web services standard, despite their support of a rival specification.
W3C cleans up SOAP 1.2 spec
By Scarlet Pruitt – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the proposed recommendation for the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) 1.2 specification Wednesday, saying that the protocol is cleaned up and in a strong position for final review.