Prolifics® (a JYACC company), an international e-business solutions provider, announced the release of XMLink Universal Gateway(TM). XMLink Universal Gateway is designed to provide BEA Tuxedo(1) applications access to business services made available from IBM WebSphere(2) and IBM WebSphere MQ
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The comparison of SQL Server 7.0 with SQL Server 2000
In this article, Sergey Vartanyan shows you the core differences between SQL Server 7.0 and 2000.
Security Technology Protects Microsoft SQL Server
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Oracle Ponders Dividend If Taxes Lifted
The board of Oracle Corp. would consider paying a regular dividend if taxes on them were lifted, said Jeffrey Henley, chief financial officer of the database software giant.
Migrating Unstructured Data to XML
By Renee Boucher Ferguson – CambridgeDocs, which facilitates XML-based content integration, announced a new tool for migrating unstructured content from legacy sources. The xDoc Converter migrates unstructured data from the likes of Microsoft Word, HTML and Adobe PDF documents into any XML sc
XML & Web Services Support in Crystal Reports 9 – Part I
In this two-part article series, we’ll explore the XML and Web services features available in Crystal Reports 9. The first part will show you how to create a new report from a relational database, by running a stored procedure, then publish the report as a XML Web service, and finally use thi
Generating DOM Magic
by Uche Ogbuji – In this article I present examples and techniques for using generators for XML processing. If you’re not already familiar with Python generators, you should read ” Iterators and simple generators”, by David Mertz. Since this article builds on a previous one of mine, ” Streamlining D
Does Sort Order Affect Performance?
I have seen information about how sort order affects performance in SQL Server 6.5, but I can not find similar information about sort-order performance in SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7.0. I am trying to decide if using binary sort makes sense for my SQL Server 2000 application. What is the perform