By Wylie Wong – Oracle entered a new software market Wednesday by announcing new e-mail, calendar and messaging software–a market dominated by Microsoft. The new “collaboration” software will allow businesses to manage e-mail, voice mail, schedules, as well as hold Web-based meetings, and wi
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RSA Bets On SAML Across Security Product Line
By Richard Karpinski – RSA Security said Tuesday it plans to support Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 1.0 in its Web access management platform by the end of the year.
Oracle Readies Guide to Clear Up License Issues
By Matt Hicks – Oracle Corp. is tackling ongoing criticism over its pricing and licensing practices by publishing a comprehensive online guide to its policies. The software maker next month will make available on its corporate Web site a Software Investment Guide that unifies its pricing and
SQL Syntax Validator
By Santosh Rao – I had one of my requirements in my application to store some custom SQL Queries into our System. These SQL Queries would be provided by the end user who is kind of well versed at least with SQL. Our system later would execute these queries to perform various aspects of the system.
VB.NET & SQL Server 2000 – Building an effective data layer
Book by Denise Gosnell, Tony Bain, Jonathon Walsh – Many VB developers choose SQL Server 2000, a robust enterprise-level database system, to provide the data layer in their applications. The introduction of Microsoft’s .NET Framework brings us ADO.NET, the latest means of connecting to that data sou
Finding all possible paths in a MS Project activity network using PL/SQL
by Eli Leiba – Microsoft Project 98 saves a network of defined activities, called a project, in an MPP file. You can save the whole project into an Oracle database and all 38 tables supporting the project definition will be created. Task_Dependencies is the table that represents all possible activit
SQLTools 1.3.5.12 Beta Released
SQLTools is a light-weight, robust tool for ORACLE database development that includes a text editor, SQL console and a couple of SQL utilities. Small enough to fit on a floppy disk and able to be used on a dial-up connection, SQLTools is a handy, portable, free program that works as fast as SQLPlus.
Version 3.0 of X-Hive XML database available
The latest version of native XML database X-Hive adds support for XQuery and DOM Level 3 Load and Save.
VoiceXML Planet Fall 2002 Conference & Expo
Building on the enormous success of the first West Coast event held in March 2002, VoiceXML Planet Fall 2002 Conference & Expo is the premier VoiceXML event for business and technology leaders who are looking for strategic, technical and market opportunities in the emerging interactive voice applica
Introduction to XQuery (Part 3 of 4)
by Srinivas Pandrangi, Alex Cheng, et al. – In the first two parts of this series, you saw a general introduction to XQuery syntax, capabilities, and the XQuery data model. In this part, you’ll learn how to use XQuery’s powerful FLWR (for, let, where, return) expressions and see the similarities bet