By Ellen O’Brien and Tim DiChiara – Web services, rising in popularity quicker than you can say SOAP, topped the list of future technology priorities for SearchDatabase.com Oracle Report Card respondents.The exclusive survey of 500 Oracle professionals asked them to rate emerging technologie
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OASIS Converges on Translation, Localization
By Clint Boulton – OASIS said its members have decided to hash out standards to automate the translation and localization process as a Web service.
Mock Pugilists Raise Fists Over Pet Shop
by Lori Piquet – The polarization of Java and .NET continues apace even as the technological gap between them slams shut. Is there any real, pragmatic benefit to a benchmark between two highly competent platforms, particularly now that we have interoperability with Web services?
Protegrity Delivers Database Encryption, Key Management
By Lisa Vaas – Protegrity Inc. is rolling out security packages for leading databases that combine software with cryptographic hardware to provide enhanced key management capabilities.
Java interaction with databases boosted
By Paul Krill – SOLARMETRIC released an upgraded version of its Kodo JDO tool, which enables a database to talk to Java applications without tedious coding and upkeep, the company said.
Under the Christmas Tree: New XML Books
Just in time for Christmas shopping, two new good XML books have been published: “Practical XML for the Web” by glasshaus, and “Java Web Services for Experienced Programmers” from Prentice Hall. Take a sneak preview!
Second Wind for Database Market?
By Erika Morphy – The noise level has gotten louder in the corporate database market over the last several months. Analysts have been predicting that a growth spurt is due, and the vendors are positioning themselves for such an event: IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) DB2, Oracle’s (Nasdaq: ORCL) 9i and Microsoft’s
Retrieve Table Metadata
by Roman Rehak – Take advantage of undocumented stored procedures to output SQL Server table metadata your code can use.
Customizing Dimension Security
By Russ Whitney – When you want to secure selected data, you have options other than Analysis Services. Here’s a customized, flexible way to manage dimension-level security.
XML for Data: Extend XSLT’s functionality with EXSLT
This column provides a quick overview of the EXSLT standardized extensions to XSLT 1.0. It identifies some of the more important functionality provided by the EXSLT extensions, and includes some guidelines as to their use.