(Thomas M. Stockwell) Last April, IBM and MySQL AB announced an agreement to port the open-source database called MySQL to the IBM System i platform. This announcement was made at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center just days before COMMON in Anaheim.
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Synergist : Why XML in Silverlight is Significant
(David L. Walker) Michael Scherotter was definitely an awesome add to Microsoft’s Silverlight team! Check out some of the awesome things he’s done in the past with XML/XSLT and what he’s working on now with MindJet’s MindManager XML export and XSLT transformation to XAML in a post he called “Create
Managing Application Performance in a Changing Environment
(Tom Joyce) Getting consistently high performance out of enterprise-class business applications and infrastructure and delivering it on a consistent basis is extremely difficult. A recent InfoPro survey found that 80 percent of enterprise customers experience an “application brownout” – a disruption
Perform bulk copies with .NET 2.0’s SqlBulkCopy class
(Tony Patton) A common development task is transferring data between disparate data sources. If you have worked with SQL Server, the bcp (bulk copy) command will be familiar to you. It allows you to quickly bulk copy large files into SQL Server tables or views. With .NET Framework 1.1, you can utili
SharePoint 2007 presents ups, downs to developers
(George Lawton) SharePoint 2007 comes with a tool that promises to drastically reduce the complexity in building the look and feel of Web applications. This, in turn, aims to allow developers to focus on coding, in Visual Studio 2005, some of the underlying complexity in Web-based SharePoint applica
Traits of a Security-Conscious Developer
(Frank Sommers and Bill Venners) In today’s installment of JavaOne 2007 interviews, Fortify Software’s Barmak Meftah and FindBugs creator Bill Pugh talk about what makes a security-conscious developer, and what developers can do to write more secure code.
INSTEAD OF Triggers [DB2 9 for z/OS]
(Craig Mullins) DB2 9 for z/OS introduces a new type of trigger: the INSTEAD OF trigger. The primary usage of INSTEAD OF triggers is to enable views that would not otherwise be updatable to support updates. Typically, a view that consists of multiple base tables cannot be updated. But with an INSTEA
Why I sometimes hate GUI’s…
(Marco Gralike) Hate? Let’s say it is a love / hate thing, but I can’t help myself. I am a script nerd and probably always will be, but even I have to “evolve” or at least adapt to what the new software cycle brings. So preparing myself for the future, I based remote administration on Oracle Ent
Less is More, More or Less
(John) Do you fret every time you declare a PL/SQL variable, that you’ve carelessly allocated a few unnecessary bytes, and that this wastage will be replicated thousands of times as your code is called from a bazillion sessions, and that that will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and makes
MySQL Slow query log in the table
(Peter Zaitsev) As of MySQL 5.1 get MySQL slow query log logged in mysql.slow_log table instead of the file as you had in previous versions.