(Gareth Morgan) Oracle has revealed plans to woo customers who are yet to upgrade to its 11i applications by offering predictable management and support costs.
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Ellison: Time Is Right for Hosted Apps
By John Taschek – Ellison, commenting on Oracle’s renewed interest in outsourcing, said the time is right for hosted applications, especially those based on Oracle’s E-Business Suite 11i. Instead of concentrating on the applications, Ellison chose to focus on costs.
XML–a hardware issue?
By Bill O’Brien – Unable to persuade you to buy new hardware based on its whizbang features alone, hardware vendors are hoping that a new gaseous software format will force you to expand your server farms despite the tight economy.
Go Mobile: Create Compact, Robust Mobile Apps with SQL Server CE 2.0 and the .NET Compact Framework
Read about the significant new features of SQL Server CE 2.0 and learn how to build a sample application for illustration.
New Datatypes, New Possibilities
In part three of this series on new features in Oracle 9i, Steven Feuerstein shows you how to make some of Oracle’s new datatypes, including XMLTypes, work for you.
SQL Server System Administration (The Landmark Series)
SQL Server System Administration assumes that you are familiar with the fundamentals of database administration and have worked with SQL Server in some capacity. This book focuses on the topic of interest to most administrators: keeping data consistently available to users.
HOWTO: Call SQL Server Stored Procedures from ASP
For a Microsoft Visual Basic .NET version of this article, see 306574. This article demonstrates three methods of calling a stored procedure from Active Server Pages using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).
Write a Message to the Alert Log
by Marco Gilbert – If you want to write a message to the alert log, you can use the undocumented KSDWRT procedure of the DBMS_SYSTEM package.
XML Signature and Encryption Standards Beg Issues
Regarding "Make Your XML Secure," by Jason Bock [.NET Magazine, November 2002]: Making applications secure is a lot more trouble than learning how to encrypt a section of XML. The XML Signature and XML Encryption standards are useful to be sure, but they beg several troubling issues.
XML in Java: Data Binding, Part 1: Code generation approaches – JAXB and more
Enterprise Java expert Dennis Sosnoski looks at several XML data binding approaches using code generation from W3C XML Schema or DTD grammars for XML documents. He starts out with the long-awaited JAXB standard now nearing release through the Java Community Process (JCP), then summarizes some of the