Interested in what is on the minds of Oracle developers and DBAs? The following presentations were the best-attended technical sessions at OracleWorld 2003. Click on the included links to download their accompanying presentations and/or whitepapers.
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Using xp_fixeddrives to Monitor Free Space
Greg Larsen discusses a simple space monitoring method that uses an undocumented SQL Server extended stored procedure named xp_fixeddrives.
Getting the Right Data with SQL Joins
by Susan Sales Harkins, Patricia E. O’ Connor – Associating tables in SQL is usually a breeze. But what happens when you find yourself looking at the completely wrong set of records and you don’t know why? Find out how correctly applying joins can help you understand and avoid these mysterious data
BMC Software Change Manager
Change Manager provides a scalable, intelligent solution to simplify and automate change across multiple RDBMSs. It protects against data loss, and ensures high data availability and quality change processes across complex database and platform environments. Product information.
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Any way for me to determine how much virtual storage my DBM1 address space is currently using?
Robert Catterall responds to: I’ve been wrestling with a performance problem for several weeks (high class 3 wait times in an accounting report). The problem originally surfaced during a stress test with a Websphere/Java/DB2 Connect/DB2 for z/OS application, but the same high wait times have now bee
An Introduction to XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language)
XBRL (short for eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based standard for handling corporate financial information. This article explains what XBRL is, provides an introduction to some of it’s uses, and provides links to a number of XBRL related resources for you to continue learning abou
Two Major Databases Spring Security Leaks
By Lisa Vaas – Two major databases have sprung security leaks.The security firm Application Security Inc. reported this week that IBM’s DB2 Universal Database and MySQL AB’s MySQL open-source database have a total of three vulnerabilities that range from low- to high-risk levels.
Convert from HTML to XML with HTML Tidy
by Benoît Marchal – This tip demonstrates how to convert HTML documents to XML (or more specifically, XHTML) with a simple, open source tool, HTML Tidy. This conversion is useful for webmasters who are migrating to XML. It can also help XML converts who have to interface with legacy HTML tools.
Morphon XML Editor 3.1.2
Validating XML editor for Java with a word processor UI, spell checking, document outline view,drag and drop for structure modiication, WXS and DTD support, WebDAV and FTP publishing. Improvements to validation and support for edit/select using XPath. Some bug fixes.