THIS WEEK: Beyond the big three

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May 28, 2002 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: Database diversity >> Featured Topic: Beyond the big three >> Expert Technical Advice: New expert advice, forum posts, and tips >> Site Highlights: * Live Vendor Connection on B2B Collaboration & Web Svc Architecture * Live Event: Applied .NET and C# * Read every installment of Fabian Pascal's monthly column  From the Editor: by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor Any old school DBMS veterans out there? As we are highlighting in this week's Featured Topic, there is life beyond the Big Three of Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server. Indeed, studies have shown that most mid- to large-sized organizations have from three to ten different DBMS products, and many of these are "legacy" systems that have long since fallen off the market radar screen. Which legacy or small-vendor database products does your organization currently use? Why? IBM's IMS is still in widespread use, for example--is it just too expensive or complex to migrate legacy data? Sybase is common in the financial services industry and Intersystems Cache is popular in health care. Do niche products better serve your specific industry? Are you planning on migrating to one of the big three, or is diversification a specific part of your IT strategy? Is systems integration a growing challenge for you? Let me know what you think! Click on over to our DBA Water Cooler and pass along your proverbial two cents. We'll incorporate your thoughts into an upcoming analysis story. Cheers, Tim  Featured Topic: Beyond the big three by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor There is life beyond the big three DBMS vendors! Sybase, MySQL, and others have found significant niches in enterprise IT. Our collection of news, tips, and expert advice has all the info you need about the "best of the rest." Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Debbie Hamel, Principal, Discovery Logic Categories:Data warehousing Debbie is VP of Knowledge Management at Discovery Logic, an informatics R&D and consulting firm. Ask her your tough Data Warehousing questions! View all Debbie's answers This Week: In the forums >> Multiple Oracle databases on NT Member "Iron Don" is trying to get two Oracle databases to run on the same Windows NT server, with no success. Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" forum if you can help "Iron Don" figure out the problem. >> DB2 JDBC driver Member "Shiva" is wondering where to find a freeware JDBC driver to connect to DB2 from HP-UX? Go to our "Database-Web Integration" forum if you have any ideas. Tip of the Week: At times, you might need to return SQL Server data to the client in random order. Unfortunately SQL Server doesn't provide built-in functionality for random sorting of the result set. The good news is that a bit of coding can help you get around this limitation. Here is how you can do that. >> Returning a result set in random order  Site Highlights B2B Collaboration & Web Svc Architecture View this Vendor Connection LIVE Tuesday at 1 PM EDT Learn how to expand your Web service architecture and orchestrate new levels of application integration. Live Event Thursday: Applied .NET and C# Join Author Ronan Sorensen this Thursday at 2 PM EDT for a Live Expert Q&A Learn how to use C# to build practical Internet applications based on the Microsoft .NET framework. Against the Grain with Fabian Pascal Read every installment of this insightful monthly column For the past 18 months, outspoken database industry analyst Fabian Pascal has submitted regular columns for SearchDatabase members. His opinions and viewpoints can infuriate and enlighten. Take a minute today to peruse the article titles and read those of interest - our guess is that you'll be reading quite a bit.... Only 4 weeks left! A few seats remain available but you must act now to gain FREE attendance at our Security Decisions conference in Chicago June 19-21. View sessions, speakers and apply today! Pre-register! Exclusive Insight The new white paper, "Analytics: Ten Critical Success Factors," by Bill Inmon, "the father of data warehousing" can only be read here. Check it out DB2 Tips Big Blue users: Subscribe to get DB2 tips delivered to your in-box. Save time, increase performance. subscriptions A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R Created by TechTarget TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media Copyright 2002, All Rights Reserved. To unsubscribe from Updates on new site content: >> Simply Reply to this Email with REMOVE within the Body or Subject -OR- >> Go to: http://searchDatabase.techtarget.com/register    - Log in to edit your profile.    - Click on the link to Edit email subscriptions.    - Uncheck the box next to the newsletter you wish to unsubscribe from.    - When finished, click "Save Changes to My Profile".