The W3C has released Candidate Recommendations of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification and Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic along with Working Drafts of An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile and SVG 1.1/1.2/2.0 Requirements.
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Oracle’s High-Priced Database Strategy Under The Microscope
By Barbara Darrow – Aside from stagnant IT purchasing, Oracle faces strong price pressure from IBM’s DB2 and Microsoft’s SQL Server databases. An eight-CPU version for Oracle9i costs 53 percent more, or $183,000 more, than IBM’s DB2 and a whopping 75 percent more, or $480,008 more, than SQL S
Identifying Unnecessary Tables
by Robert Ware – Description: Recently I was asked to determine which tables of a very large data warehouse instance were still being used. This instance has been around for quite a few years, and the concern was that several tables were not needed anymore. I created the following method to aid in t
SQL Server DTS Book Raffle
Enter to win a FREE copy of SQL Server DTS from New Riders Publishing!This book appeals to both developers and database administrators who are faced with the common situation of having to migrate or integrate data from one location into another.
Time After Time (SQL Audits and Temporal Views)
Depending on your database server, including its configuration and maintenance, you may or may not be able directly restore a database to any previous point in time. However, even with applications to help with log file management and presentation it is not practical to use restored copies of a data
XML Standards for Global Customer Information Management
By Ram Kumar – The data needed to support real-time e-business lives in legacy, back- office systems. Comprehensive customer management solutions are required to access data in a variety of disparate systems to achieve a complete picture of the customers and their relationships.
More on XML and compression
In an earlier installment of this column, David examined techniques by which XML documents can be reversibly restructured to improve compression. For large XML documents and embedded processes, however, restructuring an entire source prior to a compression pass might be impractical. In this installm
Multi-Interface Web Services Made Easy
by Kip Hampton – There is little doubt that the hype associated with web services has reached astronomical proportions. Notably missing from the current flood of information, however, is a nuts-and-bolts examination of how to build applications which provide both browser-based access for human users
Changing The SQL Server Sa Account If The Password Is Unknown
This article serves as a quick reference as well as provide you with some background information on the Microsoft SQL server’s Sa account and how to change the password even if the currently set password is unknown.
Oracle disputes database rankings
By Margaret Kane – Oracle is challenging a research report that says the software maker has lost ground to IBM in the database market.The report, released by Gartner Dataquest, said Oracle had slipped to second place, with about 32 percent market share in the overall database market.