by Antony Adshead – The next 10 years in IT will be characterised by simplicity if you believe Ian Smith. Oracle’s senior vice-president and managing director for the UK, Ireland and South Africa thinks there will be fewer suppliers, providing fewer products to IT directors who will manage simple sy
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Converting from JDOM
by Brett McLaughlin – Learning to work with JDOM? Well, no API is an island, and in this tip you’ll learn how to convert with ease from JDOM to SAX and DOM for fluent programming of XML applications that use all three APIs. The code samples provide examples of converting from JDOM to SAX and from JD
Processing RSS
by Ivelin Ivanov – The goal of this article is to demonstrate the use of XQuery to accomplish a routine, yet interesting task; in particular, to render an HTML page that merges RSS news feeds from two different weblogs. RSS has earned its popularity by allowing people to easily share news among and
SQL Server Leads OLAP Market
by Scott Bekker – SQL Server consolidated its No. 1 position in the 2002 worldwide OLAP market, where Microsoft’s presence continues to drive down the value of the average sale. But even so, Redmond is not enjoying the kind of market dominance it has achieved in other markets, according to prelimina
EXAM TIPS: Oracle9i Exam 4, #1Z0-033
You must read these tips before you take the exam (and don’t forget to read our Exam 1, Exam 2, and Exam 3 tips also)
Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
The new edition of this must-have pocket reference boils down the most vital information from Oracle PL/SQL Programming, the bestseller that many consider “the Bible” for PL/SQL development.
Startups Ready Security Wares for Databases
By Dennis Fisher – As hackers continue to find ways around edge-of-network security walls, several companies are readying software and appliances that drive protection deeper—to database files.
Altova’s XMLspy Simplifies Development
By Darryl K. Taft – Altova Inc. has announced a new version of its popular XML development tool, adding new features that make it easier for developers to create customized XML content and data editing applications, the company said. The Beverly, Mass., company said XMLspy Release 4 promotes
Script to find the tablespaces within certain extents
By Prince Kumar – The following script finds the tablespaces that can extent to a maximum of "ExtLimit". In this case, I didn’t want any files to be more than 2 GB so I set MAXSIZE to 2 GB. Also, I did not include temp files in this script.
HOWTO: Automate Word to Perform a Client-Side Mail Merge Using XML from SQL Server
This article demonstrates how to automate Microsoft Word 2000 from client-side script to perform a mail merge for labels. Word 2000 does not have a direct method for using XML data as the data source for a mail merge. The sample illustrates Active Server Pages (ASP) code that streams an XML recordse