By John G. Spooner – Dell will offer new computing clusters based on its servers, Oracle’s 9i Database software and the Linux operating system. The two companies will also work together to create a new suite of professional services related to clusters. The new agreement, which expands a five-year p
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XML to PDF using XSL-FO
In day-to-day life, we often make use of printed material – textbooks, manuals, contracts, catalogs, newspaper, magazines, and brochures. Producing high-quality print documents requires ability to do pagination, generating table of contents and index, headers and footers, margins, multi-column outpu
Fast XSLT
by Steve Punte – This article reviews the birth and development of the promising compiled-XSLT engine, Apache XSLTC, and the fierce competition among developers of XSLT engines to be the performance leader.
InfoPath Shows XML’s Promise
By Jason Brooks – “Better working through XML” is the prevailing theme for Microsoft Corp.’s forthcoming Office 2003 productivity suite, and none of its components carries this banner more prominently than InfoPath, a new application for designing and filling out XML-based forms.
Three ways to speed up SQL execution in Oracle
Oracle provides several methods for reducing the time spent parsing Oracle SQL statements, which can cause a drag on performance when executing complex queries with a large number of possible execution plans.
High Performance Backup of Very Large Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Databases White Paper
Mission-critical backup and data protection can cause interruptions in business operations, but Microsoft suggests adding functionality to SQL Server with HP OpenView OmniBack II, the market leader in enterprise storage management solutions. This white paper explains why Microsoft is working with Co
ZIP files with a stored procedure
By Matt Harper – Here is a simple SQL Server stored procedure that zips files from a source and destination directory that you pass when calling the procedure. It uses the DOS-based wzzip.exe to zip files specified into a zip file named the current date and time, e.g., 200303030809.zip.
INF: Troubleshooting Performance of Ad-Hoc Queries
This article deals with one specific type of performance issue that applications may experience with Microsoft SQL Server — slow performance of a large number of concurrent ad hoc queries.
Oracle touts J2EE frameworks
By Paul Krill – Oracle will stress frameworks and the need to make Java programming accessible to more developers in a release of its JDeveloper developer environment that the company will focus on in June.