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Microsoft targets XML, Java converter
By Gillian Law – XML will provide the technology standard necessary for Web services and Microsoft’s .Net platform will be the premier platform for development, general manager of developer platform and evangelism Vic Gundotra said in a keynote speech at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in Barcelona Mo
When to use a database-driven Web site
By Shylon Ray Hunter – Web sites require functionality, flexibility, and usability, though usability is often emphasized over other attributes. Notice that I didn’t mention a database. A database back end is a tool that helps fulfill a Web site’s requirements. Whether a Web site needs a database bac
Serializing Java Objects as XML
By Thornton Rose – Until the release of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) Version 1.4, Java objects could only be serialized to a proprietary, binary format. Now, Java objects can be serialized as XML documents, a feature of the new long-term persistence API for JavaBeans. This article illustrates how
XML Drives ID Management Systems
By Jim Rapoza – Once you get past all the politics and hype over competing identification management efforts, one fact is pretty clear: Underneath it all, these systems are very similar.<br><br>The main technology driving all Web services identification management efforts—as well as enterprise-based
Data mining: The direct route
By Ellen O’Brien – Data mining is headed for the masses.Yes, the struggle continues to move data from the back end, where the hardcore techies figure algorithms, to the front end, where most math skills are limited to factoring sales commissions. Some major vendors are responding, though, wi
Oracle, Mercury Interactive Offer E-Business Jump-Start
By Richard Karpinski – Test vendor Mercury Interactive this week teamed with Oracle Corp. for a set of testing scripts and plans for Oracle’s enterprise applications suite. Oracle’s Test Starter Kit will help customers using Mercury Interactive’s enterprise testing software speed and improve
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-030
This patch eliminates a newly discovered security issue in SQLXML. Download and install this patch today if you have enabled SQLXML and HTTP queries.
Oracle Increases Cost of Oracle9i DBA Certification
On June 15, 2002, Oracle sent an email to a select group of Oracle9i certification candidates that announced that all new Oracle9i certification candidates (those who have not yet taken an Oracle9i DBA exam) MUST take at least one “instructor-led class” from Oracle Education. Oracle representatives
Monitoring daily archive log switches: Number, size and frequency
By Guillaume HENON – Putting a database in archive log mode has a drawback: disk space usage. Moreover, the redolog switch is a costly action that causes additional disk and CPU overhead. The following script gives you in one shot the daily number of redolog switchse, archive log disk space needed,