(Curt Monash) I asked Jeff Jones of IBM to explain the various DB2 code lines to me. His answer was so clear that I asked further permission to post it verbatim. Here it is. The main takeaway is that one shouldn’t confuse the shared-everything z/OS (mainframe) version with the more loosely-coupled U
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Master-Master or Master with Many Slaves
(Peter Zaitsev) I just found post by Kevin, in which he criticizes Master-Master approach, finding Master with many slaves more optimal. There is surely room for master-N-slaves systems but I find Master-Master replication much better approach in many cases.
Code Exploration, SQL Queries, and More
(Scott Mitchell) Large Microsoft .NET Framework applications can contain hundreds or thousands of classes organized into different assemblies that constitute distinct layers in the application’s architecture. While most developers work exclusively with a particular section of the architecture, senio
zIIP and zAAP get more responsibility: they just keep getting better
(Willie Favero) Recently on one of the list there was a discussion of what you could do with a zAAP specialty engine, other than process JVM work. In other discussions, questions have come up about zIIP specialty engine only doing DB2 work. Specialty engines are relatively new compared to how long t
Workaround for the SQL DISTINCT Clause
(Srinath MS) The SQL DISTINCT clause isn’t case sensitive, which means that your query might end up pulling records with different cases.
XSD Tutorial – Part 3 of 5 – Extending Existing Types
(Simon Sprott) It is often useful to be able to take the definition for an existing entity, and extend it to add more specific information. In most development languages, we would call this inheritance or sub classing. The same concepts also exist in the XSD standard. This allows us to take an exist
Oracle updates leave critical Windows flaw
(Robert McMillan) Some Oracle customers using the Windows operating system will have to wait another two weeks to receive a critical software update to their database software, thanks to a glitch that came up in testing the company’s latest patches.
(60) SelectViews – On the show today, we interview Chris Shaw of SQL On Call to hear about things he’s found in the field when helping customers.
Video Programming for IT Professionals
Creating a Code Search Engine with PHP and MySQL
(Jason Gilmore) I’m just a few days away from launching a comprehensive support website for my book, “Beginning PHP and MySQL 5, Second Edition”, and among other features, have built a search engine for sifting through the more than 500 code snippets found throughout the book. This was an interestin
XAML Layout using the Panel Class
(Doug Cook) Avalon provides a number of options to achieve complex layouts. The framework supports an integrated set of components as part of a single, flexible layout model that has been optimized for content presentation.