(Itzik Ben-Gan) When your query needs to find items with certain relationships, you can use relational division, or you can try these new tricks. (R,$)
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SAP might be the kink in Oracle’s plan
By Mike Tarsala – Oracle’s hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft is being lauded as brilliant: Oracle wins the game if it can boost sales by buying PeopleSoft outright, and also wins if it doesn’t buy it, by hurting PeopleSoft’s business during takeover wrangling.
Merge XML Documents
by Kathleen Dollard – Take advantage of the XMLDocument object to combine data files from multiple sources.
Developing Voice XML Applications Using Microsoft.NET
by Hitesh Seth – In this fourth article in the “Spotlight on VoiceXML” series we return to our hands-on approach for developing VoiceXML applications. In Part 1 we cover the basic fundamentals of the new Microsoft .NET Framework and its components. In Part 2 we’ll apply .NET technologies, particular
At last, UDDI moves into the spotlight
By Eric B. Parizo – To date, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) has been outshined by other Web services specifications, but thanks to a recent endorsement by OASIS and a growing need to make specific Web services easy to find, the XML-based standard is poised for a comeback.
Oracle Raises Its Bid For PeopleSoft
Oracle Corp. on Wednesday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. by nearly 24 percent, to $6.3 billion. Oracle said it would offer $19.50 a share in cash for all outstanding shares of PeopleSoft.
DB2 user certification prep, Part 1: DB2 Tools, data warehousing and OLAP
This tutorial introduces the basics of the DB2 Tools, and the concepts of data warehousing and OLAP. It is designed to help you prepare for the DB2 Fundamentals Certification (Exam 512). The material in this tutorial primarily covers the objectives in the first section of the exam, Section 1. Instal
Well-structured XML Goes Cosmopolitan
Everyone knows that among its many uses, XML can store the same data in multiple languages and dish it out like a U.N. translator when the computers of the world come calling. What everyone doesn’t know is how best to structure that polyglot of data. There’s more than one way.
Relaxer 1.0 Release Candidate 2 available
Relaxer is a Java class generator that operates on a XML document defined by a RELAX grammer.By using Relaxer, no tedious DOM programming is required to make a XML aware program. Relaxer creates a set of Java classes that form an object hierarchy that is logically equivalent to a DOM
CSS 3 Selectors
by Russell Dyer – Although the promise of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has been wondrous, the progress has been wanting. As with all W3C standards, there is the lengthy discussion process conducted by the related working group, then the problem of implementation by web browser vendors, and finally t