(Gualtiero Chiaia) In the real world, a factory is a physical entity specializing in the automated production of goods, all having well specified features. Most often, the production process consists of the assembling of third-party sub-components, also having well specified features. Typically, a p

(Scott Moore) XML is a great communications format. The flexibility and expressiveness of XML belies its simplicity. Even better, the current technologies surrounding XML are powerful and have a lot of industry momentum. One of oldest XML technologies is DOM (Document Object Model) [1] — a standard,

(Tobias Ratschiller) I will be the first to admit that I love computing standards. If every vendor adhered to an industry standard, I think the web would be a better medium for everyone. Using standardized data exchange formats, open, platform-independent computing models become feasible. It is for

(Rich Salz) In my previous column I offered a rationale for XKMS as an important web service, and I looked at reducing the problem of implementing such a service to a reasonable size. This time we’ll build the infrastructure necessary to develop and deploy an XKMS registration server that can issue

Here are some quick and dirty instructions on how to import data that you have in a file into a DB2 table. Likewise, you can export the data from a DB2 table into a file. The DB2 commands, surprise, are named import and export, respectively. Yes, Virginia, there is a DB2 load command. It offers

Discover how the next version of SQL Server, code-named “Yukon,” will benefit you with the new and enhanced abilities and features described on this page.

(Uche Ogbuji) In this article I cover two XML processing libraries with very disjoint goals. xmltramp, developed by Aaron Swartz, is a tool for parsing XML documents into a data structure very friendly to Python. Recently many of the tools I’ve been covering with this primary goal of Python-friendli

(Kendall Grant Clark) As a relatively new resident of the East Coast, living two hours south of Philadelphia, and as someone who finds Philly one of the most interesting, most American of American cities, I didn’t hesitate when Edd Dumbill suggested I join him at IDEAlliance’s XML Conference 2003 at

(Bill Burke) If you’re like most Oracle DBAs, you’re looking forward to the release of Oracle’s next-generation database, Oracle Database 10g, with a mixture of excitement and dread. You know that this new version will include many improvements and new features that will make your job easier and mor

Databases can be shutdown with one of the following commands: –shutdown normal –shutdown transactional (Oracle 7.3 and above only) –shutdown immediate –shutdown abort In Oracle 7 or 8.0, these commands must be issued within the Server Manager utility, because shutting down a database