by Stuart J. Johnston – Although e-business initiatives tend to focus on transaction systems, collaborative systems are based on people working together. See what industry insiders say is driving the development of a new breed of collaboration platforms and applications built around XML.
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IETF draft: "Registration of xmlns Media Feature Tag"
Simon St. Laurent has announced an updated IETF draft prescribing a MIME media feature tag for XML content, which indicates the relevant namespace or namespaces in the transmitted document.
How to Install Oracle9i EE on Red Hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2
This article details how Werner Puschitz installed the Oracle9i (9.0.1) database on Red Hat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2-2) and on Red Hat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10).
Encrypting a string to a varbinary(128)
By Eli Leiba – This code is useful when encrypting sensitive data (like passwords) into a varbinary. The PWDENCRYPT and PWDCOMPARE functions are used to encrypt and compare DATA passwords are not visible in anywhere in the database.
Changing the DB Name and data file paths the safe and easy way
(Michael Ritacco) A common way to rename all the database and all data files is to rebuild the control file. This can be very labor intensive, however, and possibly dangerous if you have a large number of data files. You could make a mistake and lose a data file or two in the process because the dat
ANSI ASC X12 Drives Cross-Industry Collaboration on XML Initiatives
The ANSI Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 is meeting Feb. 3-8 in Seattle to evaluate processes to facilitate collaboration with the numerous industry groups and associations developing Extensible Markup Language (XML) specifications. Forging ahead to foster XML convergence and interoperabili
Gorille supports character testing for XML 1.0, 1.1
Recent threads on XML-DEV and elsewhere have once again illustrated the complexity behind the basic atoms of XML documents: Unicode characters. Simon St. Laurent announced the 0.4 release of Gorille, a tool for helping makers of Java XML processors, or applications that emit XML, test their characte
J2EE 1.3 has a day in the Sun
Debate over standards compliance came into focus on 29 January, when Sun Microsystems assembled a panel of 18 software vendors at a J2EE 1.3 compatibility event in San Francisco.
Manually Removing all Oracle Components on Windows NT/2000
This article describes the procedure how to manually perform the actions to create a “clean machine” on Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and how to manually remove all Oracle components (e.g.: oracle RDBMS database server, IAS, OEM, client installations, etc) and services from your computer.
Which indexes require a re-build?
By Danny Mohar – This script is used to determine which indexes require a re-build to assist with system performance. A ratio of 10-20% deleted lf rows to lf rows may be candidates. The script will attempt the used of dynamic SQL to execute the DDL commands required to execute the analyze table comm