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Databases wrestle XML

By Ed Scannell and Paul Krill – AS XML WORKS its way deeper into the enterprise, the database war heats up, with IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle wrestling over emerging query standards and database architectures.<Br><Br>Despite agreement that XML has become the lingua franca of the Internet, a lack of ti

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XML Security Library 0.0.9

Aleksey Sanin has released version 0.0.9 of the XML Security Library (xmlsec), an open-source libxml- and OpenSSL-based implementation of the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature (dsig) and W3C XML Encryption (xenc) specifications. This release fixes some major bugs found in the 0.0.8 release.

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Destination ORACLEWORLD

It’s just around the corner; the largest Oracle event of the year, this November 10-14 in San Francisco. OracleWorld is your chance to hear the latest on Oracle product strategy and enhancements, get the inside scoop from Oracle partners, mingle with your peers, and receive valuable training directl

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Encrypt your database? You bet

By Wayne Rash – When the team from Protegrity, Inc. called the ZDNet offices last week to tell us about its database content encryption software, Secure.Data, my initial reaction was, “Who needs it?” After all, your databases should be inaccessible to the outside world. If they’re inaccessible, why

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Structural Patterns in XML

by Will Provost – Pattern recognition is fundamental to the human intellect. In pursuits as varied as art appreciation, home repair, and software engineering, patterns naturally inform our thinking and help us to mature. The practice of pattern recognition and use was first formalized with respect t