X-Hive Corporation has announced X-Hive/DB 1.1, a persistent DOM implementation built on top of the Objectivity object oriented database.
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Smarter Data Warehouses
by Joy Mundy – Few queries and reports perform any calculation fancier than summing or counting, with the occasional ratio thrown in for excitement. Query and reporting tool vendors have done an excellent job of making the simple things easy. They do a nice job of providing functionality that is mis
eData Usage Analyzer
From SQL Power Tools – The demand for global access to corporate information from eCommerce and data warehousing applications will be ever increasing in the years 2000+. Data and application usage patterns exposed by the eData Usage Analyzer reveal how end-users interact with data. The eData Usag
Getting started with XSLTC
By Piroz MohseniCheck out the ability to compile XSLT. Learn about XSLTC and translets as well!
RDF and Topic Maps, so similar and so different!
By Eric van der Vlist – Graham Moore presented "RDF and Topic Maps: An Exercise in Convergence" (pdf), a demonstration that Topic Maps can be modeled in RDF and RDF can be modeled as Topic Maps, along with a proposal to define a metadata-based mapping to transition between the two languages.
DIDL: Packaging Digital Content
In this article we detail the reasons for undertaking the development of a digital packaging standard and describe in depth a package manifest scheme that potentially addresses the enumerated needs. In doing so, we show how such a scheme effectively disassociates the notion of content item from indi
Practical SQL: The Sequel
From SQL-Server-Performance.com – This book is really interesting, and a bit different from most of the SQL language "how-to" books that I have read in the past. In fact, the book is somewhat hard to describe. Essentially, the book teaches you how to code SQL for the "real world". No
Return of the BLOB
When you're designing and programming databases, images and audio or video clips probably aren't among the first things that you consider storing. However, today's databases often need to store employee photos, product pictures, and the like. Even the ability to play on-demand video clip
XML Through the Wall
by Daniel Nehren – The problem of connecting client-server applications through a firewall has been haunting programmers for a long time. Most of the time, a corporate firewall opens the fewest ports possible. Normally, the only port you will have available is port 80—the one used for the Web.
Overcoming the Trials of Data Gathering
by Alan Sproat – So, gathering data from HTML is not always easy. However, with reasonably well-formatted HTML and some minor editing, you can turn these Web pages into manageable XML from which you can extract the data you need. Not only that, but the XML also lets you know if the document format h