By Simon St.Laurent – This document specifies a content-type() scheme for use in XPointer-based fragment identifiers. This scheme, like other XPointer Framework [12] schemes, is designed primarily for use with the XML Media Types defined in RFC 3023 [5], to identify locations within a given XML rep
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JavaTM Architecture for XML Binding Beta Implementation
The Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) allows Java developers to map easily between XML data and Java classes, method and in memory objects. Using JAXB, developers can manipulate data in Java and quickly output and input that data to/from XML with validation and type mapping. JAXB support the
Patent issues and SOAP
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An Interview with the Authors of SQL Performance Tuning
by Brad M. McGehee – In this interview, the authors tell us a little about their book and offer some advice for DBAs and SQL developers.
True DBA Blooper #7: Tricks, slips and surprises
By Sara Cushman – Not all true DBA bloopers involve running errant code or deleting live production databases with a single keystroke. This collection shows that sometimes technical difficulties occur when communications go awry, practical jokes turn sour, or someone turns on the lights.
Can Holistic Security Plug Data Security Holes?
by Joseph McKendrick – A recent survey of database developers and managers from Evans Data also confirms that direct attacks against databases are on the rise. More than one out of five respondents, 20 percent, report a direct security breach against a database in their company over the past year –
Oracle Tries to Smooth Rocky Relations with User Group
By Songini, Marc L – ORACLE CORP. last week showed a beefed-up presence at the fall conference of its independent applications user group, signalling that a well-publicized rift between the vendor and the group is continuing to mend.
Oracle Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Awards
By Barbara Assadi and Leslie Steere – Oracle’s products are used by literally hundreds of thousands of people around the world, so the challenge of selecting fewer than a dozen Oracle users, managers, and executives to receive our first ever Editors’ Choice Awards was both a gargantuan task and an i
XQuery: An XML Query Language
By Donald Chamberlin – In IBM Systems Journal Volume 41, Number 4 (2002), pages 597-615 (with 20 references). “The World Wide Web Consortium has convened a working group to design a query language for Extensible Markup Language (XML) data sources. This new query language, called XQuery, is still evo
OASIS Ratifies SAML 1.0
A specification considered a key factor in securing Web services has been ratified as a standard by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).