Quest Software Inc, a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, announced a beta version of Quest Toad for DB2, a full-featured database development solution that increases user productivity for SQL development and database object management. This product

(Korry Douglas) This chapter covers the basic operation of PostgreSQL, including naming conventions, creating a database, and indexing. When you finish with it, you should be able to use PostgreSQL for most basic functions.

(Gayan Peiris) Performance monitoring helps organizations identify performance bottlenecks of the current environment and identify the right time to scale out the SharePoint server farm. I will be looking at what are the critical performance counters in a SharePoint Portal environment and how to mon

Microsoft’s SharePoint Services gives you a lot of features you may have found yourself wishing for, features you couldn’t have because you’d have to go to the trouble of rolling your own or fiddling with your infrastructure in order to achieve them. Some of these features might not be immediately a

(Robert Bogue) SharePoint Portal Server’s search engine is one of its most powerful features, able to search file shares, Exchange public folders, Notes databases, and Web sites; however, the results you get when you index a Web site may be a bit overwhelming. In this article, you’ll see how Sha

(Srikanth Kancharla) InfoPath is based on industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML). Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a condensed form of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) that enables developers to create customized tags that offer flexibility in organizing and presenting info

(Ryan Naraine) Last week’s sophisticated bot attack against Windows installations of the MySQL database engine has fizzled after DNS (Domain Name System) service authorities shut off access to IRC servers controlling the worm.

(Michael Fitzgerald) Among my favorite hacks in XML Hacks are two that use an SGML package called SP to do some clever tricks. James Clark’s SP is a free, open-source SGML-parser package that includes an SGML parser called nsgmls and an SGML-to-XML converter called sx. The first hack excerpted b

(Paul Ford) What did the Semantic Web have to do with the war in Iraq? Not enough, says Jim Hendler, who heads the Mindswap Semantic Web research laboratory at the University of Maryland, speaking at the 2004 Semantic Technologies for e-Government Conference in McLean, Virg., held Sept. 8-9, 2004.

(Jason Masterman and Ted Pattison) Over the last few years, Microsoft has made a significant investment in collaborative technologies. Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) are two flagship products positioned in this space. This article is written in two parts. In