XML is increasingly becoming common as a means for information exchange. A web service application is an example of the type of application that uses XML to exchange information. Any business intelligence product or solution must have sufficient capability to query information that could be in the form of XML. Learn how IBM Cognos 8 delivers a comprehensive, flexible, secure, and scalable solution to query and report on XML data sources, including web services, by leveraging the IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager.

Learn about advanced query statistics, a new feature introduced in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1, based on query log index technology. This new feature offers access to three critical types of statistical information about searches executed using OmniFind: changes in query activity over time, popular queries issued by users, and query history. By monitoring and analyzing these statistics, you can gain insights that enable you to enhance search performance and improve the quality of search results.

IBM DB2 database administrators can now rename a column without the need to unload, drop, rebuild, reload and re-grant on the table. Rebecca Bond introduces AUTO_REVAL, a recent addition to IBM DB2 configuration options.

This technique uses JavaScript to allow a user to pass multiple values provided to an IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio textbox prompt.

In the spirit of David Letterman's Top Ten lists, here is a look at what IT management requires from database management systems (DBMSs).

Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) has seen many changes lately. Keeping up with new features in the Oracle RDBMS can be challenging enough, but when you add changes to products, you may have your work cut out for you. This article explores some updates in OWB for Oracle11gR2 (plus some of the changes between 10g and 11g).

Customers running mission critical solutions have asked Microsoft to provide higher levels of service and support for their environments, given the potential negative impact to their business if an incident or outage occurs to their mission critical solution. With that in mind, Microsoft Services today announced an enhanced Premier Mission Critical add-on for customers running business critical solutions on the Microsoft platform. 

The new version of Premier Mission Critical will focus on three phases, all designed to help the customer achieve business continuity:  Review, Maintain and Restore.

• Review for risk mitigation and support optimization through solution validation and architectural reviews.
• Maintain continuity by working closely with Microsoft Solution Engineers who facilitate and orchestrate proactive services, remediation, problem resolution, and knowledge transfer.
• Restore business if issues arise by taking advantage of the fastest response times and expedited problem resolution available from Microsoft.

Premier Mission Critical is now available for the following Microsoft products:  Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server,  Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft System Center, Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server. 

For more information please visit www.microsoft.com/services or check out today’s announcement.

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SQL server 2008 improves developer productivity by providing seamless integration between frameworks, data connectivity technologies, programming languages, Web services, development tools and data. This article covers the top 10 developer features introduced in SQL server 2008.

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This document provides some tips and techniques when creating a custom style (or "skin") in IBM Cognos 8.4.x.

Learn how the DTExec and DTExecUI utilities give you the ability to assign values to arbitrary properties of components within a SQL Server Integration Services package, when invoking its execution.

Cursors provide a means of processing through a set of records row-by-row. However, many companies have a policy against using cursors in their SQL Server standards. This article examines the problem with cursors and alternatives to using them.