CNET – Brief Mention – The company also is banking on a new technology code-named Yukon “that will be key to our next-generation storage, database, file system, email, and user interface work,” Ballmer wrote.
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New Windows could solve age-old format puzzle–at a price
CNET – In addition, Microsoft has already developed the database technology it needs for a new file system. A future release of its SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, is being designed to store and manage both standard business data, such as columns of numbers and letters, and unstructured data
IBM demos new data-access technology
CNET – Microsoft is developing a version of its SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, to integrate data from multiple sources and let people query that data as if it were stored in one place. The same technology is expected to find its way into the next major release of Windows, code-named Longhorn
Notify Oracle application users
By Shankar Govindan – Here is a script that spools the Mail ID’s of the Application users and mails them whatever you want to notified them. This only requires that when a user is created, the Mail ID information is fed in and exists in the AOL tables of the database. The script was tested on 10.7 N
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Template Languages in XSLT
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Power Up Database Apps With XML
by Daniel Anderson and Mary V. Hooke – In this article, you'll look at the XML for SQL Server 2000 Web Release 2 beta 2 (WR2) package and discover what it brings to your development toolbox (see Resources). You'll build a small Visual Basic example using the XML Web release and the XMLHTTP o
Call for speakers at XML World 2002
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Oracle9i Release 2 Due in May/June
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Oracle Java application performance, part 2: JDBC driver comparisons
By John Carnell, et al. – Performance optimization is a big topic; big enough to fill an entire book of information on how to make Oracle and Java perform better. In this and subsequent tips, we will look at just a few ways to improve the performance of your Java programs.