Oracle Database 10g offered two new Flashback features that allowed an authorized user to see all versions of any changes made to one or more rows in a table. Database 11gR1 provides the ability to back out one or more independent or dependent transactions with Flashback Transaction Backout.

Comparing the performance of SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2000 demonstrated an improvement of 18.5% in the time to process a workload. Now that SQL Server 2008 has shipped, it's time to compare the performance of SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008.

How well do you know the sorting rules of your own language? Chances are, Oracle knows them much better than you, in addition to knowing all the rules for all of the languages Oracle supports. Take a tour through Oracle's multilingual linguistic searching and sorting features.

Paul Zikopoulos introduces you to the Data Web Services Test Client that's available in IBM Data Studio Version 1.2 or later

Join BI Architect Bill Pearson as he introduces Attribute Relationships into his extended examination of the dimensional model within the integrated Microsoft Business Intelligence solution.

An interview with Herain Oberoi, group project manager for the SQL Server Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse product.

Learn how to create right click (Short Cut) Menus in Microsoft Access 2007.

Learn how to use Windows PowerShell and AMO to retrieve the database properties of SQL Server Analysis Service.

Yan Pan explains how to set up proxies in SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and compares the differences between them.

In part 12 of this series, Paul Zikopoulos delves into the Web Services Explorer, one of the testing facilities for your Web services that is included in IBM Data Studio Version 1.1 and Version 1.2.