At Internet World Fall 2002, Microsoft continues to evangelize XML Web services and its .NET platform as a way to make organizations capable of adapting to trends and capitalizing on opportunities.
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DataDirect Tool Converts XML To SQL
By Peter Williams – DataDirect Technologies has launched software designed to cut time and complexity in transforming data between relational databases and XML for Java applications.jXTransformer is written entirely in Java and is aimed at web application architects and developers who conver
Tablespace Report from SQL*Plus
by Christopher Chelladurai – The following script lists all the tablespace names in the database with their type (whether permanent or temporary), extent management (whether local or dictionary), sizes, and status (online, offline, read-only). This script should be run by a DBA user in SQL*Plus.
Oracle Concepts: The Instance and the Database
The complexity of how information is stored and where it is retrieved from is hidden from the casual user who queries a database. But if you plan on administering Oracle, you need to become familiar with how Oracle handles both resources. In this article, Joe Lax discusses two basic, but important,
Davis signs bill targeting conflicts on tech contracts
By Mark Gladstone – In the wake of the botched Oracle contract, Gov. Gray Davis on Monday approved legislation cracking down on conflicts of interest in state technology purchases.
Application Performance Tuning
by Kevin Kline and Baya Pavliashvili – Many people can write computer code; few can write software that’s scalable. This article provides some of the general guidelines for application performance tuning. The rest of the articles in this series will go into details of tuning the database portion of
SQL Server Database Index Performance Checklist
by Brad M. McGehee – This sixth part of the SQL Server Performance Audit series covers indexes, and how to audit them for best performance.
Find when a stored procedure or function was last altered
By Parthasarathy Mandayam – Find when a SQL Server stored procedure or function was last altered with this script.
Exporting SQL Data as XML
By Darshan Singh – In my last article, Importing XML into SQL Server 2000, we looked at various techniques to import the XML data into SQL Server. To complement that, this article will focus on some of the methods that you can use to export relational SQL data to the XML format.
Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Specification Submitted to W3C
W3C has received ‘Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Version 1.1’ from IPR Systems and has published the document as a W3C Note. ODRL is a language for expressing rights information over content; it includes XML schemas for the expression language and data dictionary. The submission request and W3C