By Joshua Greenbaum – One of the great migrations of the software industry is about the begin anew. It’s the migration of Oracle’s time and energy back into a key market that the company hasn’t paid much attention to of late.
Other News
10-Minute Video: Sort and Page XML
by Dan Wahlin – This video tutorial from XML expert Dan Wahlin shows how to sort and page XML using intrinsic classes in the .NET Framework, such as the DataSet, DataView, and DataGrid.
Java spec waits for Web services
By Martin LaMonica – A revision to a much-anticipated Java standard will be delayed about three months in order to comply with guidelines designed to keep Web services interoperable.
Microsoft to Add Reporting to SQL Server
By Dennis Callaghan – Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that it is adding reporting capabilities to its SQL Server business intelligence platform, a move that financial analysts predicted could threaten reporting software vendors.
XML at Five
by Edd Dumbill – The XML 1.0 Recommendation turned five years old this Monday, 10 February. Since February 1998 XML has grown and developed, vastly exceeding all initial expectations. During those five years, XML.com has followed the XML world tirelessly, publishing nearly a thousand articles and be
Configuring One-Way Merge Replication
Q. How can I configure SQL Server merge replication to work in only one direction?A. By default, with merge replication you pass data in both directions: changes at a publisher are sent to a subscriber, and changes at a subscriber are sent back to a publisher. In some cases, you might want t
The Guru’s Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Book by Ken Henderson – Teaches that stored procedure development does not occur in a vacuum–it involves a wide variety of skills, subjects, and technologies–and helps the reader become a better software engineer, not just a stored procedure expert. The most complete coverage of SQL Server stored
XML Validator
This article was written by Vaiyapuri Subramanian. He writes “In SQL Server 2000, XML can be parsed using the extended stored procedure sp_xml_preparedocument. This works fine as long as a well-formed xml is provided. Then do whatever needs to be done and you can call the extended procedure sp_xml_r
Advanced Tuning with Statspack
By Rich Niemiec – If you could choose just two Oracle utilities to find and monitor performance problems in your Oracle9i Database system, those two utilities would be Oracle Enterprise Manager (now available in Release 4.0) and Statspack. As of Oracle8i Release 8.1.6, the Statspack utility replaced
Writing Web Services Client Applications using Visual C++
This article illustrates writing XML Web Services client applications in Visual C++, using Microsoft XML Core Services (or MSXML), Microsoft SOAP Toolkit Version 3, and PocketSOAP.