By Sara Cushman – Defending their new DBA certification requirement against critics who say it’s costly and unnecessary, Oracle described the move as part of a new strategy to ensure that only top-shelf candidates receive the company’s stamp of approval.
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Processing SOAP Headers
Rich Salz explains how to process SOAP headers and why you’d want to. Along the way he predicts the demise of SAX-based SOAP processors.
W3C Makes XML Signatures More Portable
By Thor Olavsrud – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) advanced a recommendation critical to the XML family of technologies; a recommendation which is especially important to Web services. Exclusive XML Canonicalization builds on the previous Canonical XML recommendation, enabling the portabi
XML in Mozilla 1.0
The long-awaited release of Mozilla 1.0 finally arrived this month, after a staggering three year development process. Standards compliance has always been an important goal in Mozilla, and manyfold XML standards have found their way into the product.
IBM Rolls Out New Database Software
By Jennifer LeClaire – In a move to compete with rival Oracle’s new 9i database management software, IBM has released a beta version of its new DB2 database. According to IBM executives, the latest software is faster and more reliable than its predecessor, with improved support for Web services.
JDBC Transaction Optimization
By Jack Shirazi – Transactions make a developer’s job a lot easier. By using the transaction capabilities within the JDBC API and relational databases such as Oracle9i, you can minimize possible data corruption when updating multiuser applications. Transactions require processing overhead, however,
Performing a Log Shipping Role Change
How do I create stored procedures for performing a log shipping role change without having to create a Data Transformation Services (DTS) package to copy the logins from the primary server to the secondary server?
Microsoft Windows Server DevCon 2002: Sept. 3 – 6
Learn from Microsoft experts how to code scalable, secure, high-performance server and datacenter applications for Windows 2000 and Windows .NET Servers.
Precise Software Adds Performance Management For SQL Server
By Barbara Darrow – Precise Software Solutions this week added a performance management tool for SQL Server 2000 to its roster. Available now, the Precise/Indepth software uses technology developed by the company with Microsoft to glean better metrics about database performance.
Implementing XPath for Wireless Devices, Part II
In this article, Bilal Siddiqui will discuss the features of XPath which allow for complex search operations on an XML file. He will discuss predicates or filtered queries and the use of functions in XPath. He will present various XPath queries for the processing of WSDL and WML. Bilal w