(Joe McKendrick) IBM estimates that about 70 percent of the world’s data resides on mainframes. That means there are more terabytes of data sitting in DB2 and IMS database files – storing years of customer and supplier history, transactions, and market data – than in all other databases combined.
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Letters, May 2003
From Sql Server Magazine – Readers ask why so many SQL Servers were connected to the Internet–where they were vulnerable to Slammer, whether linked servers work for Oracle running on Solaris, and comment on choosing a .NET language.
Finding the Maximum Increment Allowed
by Marco Gilbert – Changing the increment by clause of a sequence that cycles and uses cache can produce the following error: “ORA-04013: number to CACHE must be less than one cycle” The following command helps you prevent this error. This SQL command will return the maximum incremen
Study: Oracle9i Tops IBM’s DB2 in Manageability
By Lisa Vaas – IOUG Live! conference attendees last Monday were greeted with two pieces of good news: that Hewlett-Packard Co. is chopping an incremental 20 percent off of hardware when customers purchase Oracle Corp. software with HP hardware, and that Oracle’s Oracle9i database is easier to use th
Building VoiceXML Applications Using J2EE
by Hitesh Seth – This column focuses on VoiceXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language), an emerging standard (defined by VoiceXML Forum, submitted to the W3C Voice Browser Activity Group) for the development of interactive voice-based applications. It’s one of the first standards that opens up the form
XML Standards Provide Web Services Security
Everybody’s talking about Web services, but what about the security implications? Learn how implementing some maturing XML security standards into your Web services applications can assure an end-to-end solution
Microsoft To Expose Passport As XML-Enabled .NET Web Service This Summer
By Paula Rooney – As part of its growing portfolio of .NET services, Microsoft will expose its Passport authentication service as an XML Web service this summer, officials said. The forthcoming Microsoft Passport Web Service, which will support XML and the delivery of Simple Object Access Pro
Clearing Database Network Clogs
By Don MacVittie – You may not be losing much sleep over how your database affects your network, but here’s a wake-up call: Databases today are more likely than ever to cause network congestion.
How to search for date and time values
by Bryan Syverson – Before you can effectively query date/time (or temporal) data, you have to know something about how date/time values are stored. SQL Server supports two date/time data types: datetime and smalldatetime. The difference between the two is the amount of storage used.
Oracle aims to make databases self-managing
Database staff using the Oracle Enterprise Manager product will be able to aggregate multiple databases and other Oracle-based systems in a single browser-based view, said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice-president, database and application server technologies, at Oracle.