Friday, April 30, 2004

A plague of plagiarists in a cut-and-paste world - RUSSELL SMITH, Globe and Mail. Plagiarism is in the news: Journalists at august journals are coming out as fakes in droves. There is a plague of discovery going on that rivals the outing of priests as pedophiles or Toronto cops as crooks. Suddenly everyone's looking at everyone funn [Online Learning Update] 7:50:54 AM      Google It!.

XML databases move to the middle. It's true that you can use native XML databases to manage the growing number of business documents created by the new generation of XML-savvy end-user applications. It's handy, for example, to search an insurance database for incident reports that match some structured pattern of in-line metadata. But hybrid SQL/XML databases can do that too, and they can also join the structured XML content with relational columns -- a powerful combination. So XML databases are migrating into a niche that SQL/XML can't and won't occupy. They're becoming the high-performance pumps that push XML traffic around on the emerging services web. [InfoWorld.com] This short piece is a companion to Sean McCown's excellent cover story which surveys the XML features of leading relational databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase. ... [Jon's Radio] 7:47:44 AM      Google It!.