While the W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG) argues about the safety of various flavors of HTTP programming, two icons of the Web have gone different directions: Google toward SOAP, and Amazon (whether they know it or not) toward REST.
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'Yukon' to Add Run-Time, XML Support
By Peter Galli and Matt Hicks – Microsoft Corp. is bringing its next SQL Server release, code-named Yukon, in line with its .Net and Web services vision, with new data unification and integration technology. Microsoft plans to embed .Net CLR (Common Language Runtime) in the SQL engine, as wel
Send and receive SOAP messages with JAXM
In this tip, author and developer Nicholas Chase shows you how to use the Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) to simplify the process of creating and sending SOAP messages.
SQL Commands – Introduction
SQL statements are used by Access, ADO, Oracle, Informix, and not suprisingly, MS SQL server. In short, if you use databases, be it in VB, ASP, FoxPro, Access or anything else, at some stage you will need to know SQL. SQL, or Structured Query Language gives you complete control over databases, creat
How Valuable Are Benchmark Scores?
By Brian Moran – You can’t judge a book by its cover, and you can’t judge a benchmark by its raw score. On behalf of PC Magazine and eWeek, eTesting Labs recently conducted database- and application-server benchmark tests.
Inserting Images into Database
In this tutorial you are going to learn everything in detail step by step you’ll ever want to know about inserting binary data ( images, zip files etc ) into database. This is actually first of the three articles I am going to write on manipulating binary data in the database. After this article you
Whip Your Queries Into Shape
(Andy Clark) Much of the data you work with is probably hierarchical, and hierarchical cursors are a convenient tool you can use to work with data organization. In this column, I’ll show you how to use hierarchical cursors to develop programs quickly that access data the way your users think about i
Calculate the Space Allocated, Space Used, and Space Free
by Sravan Patharla – Usually there are no dictionary views that can be used to find the space usage information about Indexes. Oracle, however, has a package, DBMS_SPACE, that you can use to find the space usage information of either an index or a table, but only for one object at a time.
The SPFILE
By Venu G. – The purpose of this article is to help you become familiar with one of Oracle9i’s new features, the server parameter file – aka SPFILE.
Perl and XML on the Command Line
by Kip Hampton – Over the last several months we have explored some the of ways that Perl's XML modules can by used to create complex, modern Web publishing systems. Also, the growing success of projects like AxKit, Bricolage, and others shows the combination of Perl and XML to be quite capable