(Eric Smith) Most developers have one server they use to develop their applications and another server where they deploy the applications. The problem with this configuration is that you typically have to change your database connection settings, file locations, and so forth, each time you deploy yo
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 with OEM10G
(Bas Klaassen) After configuring the Oracle EBS 11.5.10 environment in OEM10G, it was time to also configure the new Oracle EBS R12 environment in OEM10G.
A sneak peak at DB2 9 for z/OS performance
(Willie Favero) Are you curious about the possible performance improvements in DB2 9 for z/OS? Then I have just the thing for you. Akira Shibamiya, performance guru with DB2 for z/OS development, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, has a presentation out on the IBM DB2 support web page that you will want
C#: Dynamic Iterators with Yield Return
(Paul Kimmel) In the not-too-recent past I predicted that code generators would produce some of the most exciting and useful innovations. Because code that writes code—once perfected—is perfect every time. Humans cannot get something perfect every time, ever.
Composite keys and normalization
(Rudy Limeback) What is composite key and why do we use it? Why go for normalization? Any good sites where I can get information? Any tool which can be used? (R)
IBM aims to orchestrate SOA projects with Eclipse Jazz
(Rich Seeley) The popular image of a programmer hunched over a keyboard in a windowless cinder block bunker with pizza boxes being shoved under the door is very 1984 in today’s service-oriented architecture world. (R)
Infrastructure Solutions: Design, Manage, and Optimize a 20 TB SAP BW Warehouse
(Christian Matthys, David Bright, Carol Davis, Fabio Hasegawa, Philippe Jachimcsyk, Steve Lockwood, Thomas Marien, Julien Maussion and Stefan Ulrich) In order to improve the performance and operational efficiency of businesses worldwide, a customer using SAP wanted to establish a global business pro
Myths, GUID vs Autoincrement
(Brian Aker) I am a fan of using GUIDs as primary keys. They are database independent, object independent and I can either create them in my application or in the database (MySQL since 5.0 has had a UUID() function but since it does not replicate I don’t use it normally… this has been fixed in 5
The Helper Table Workbench
(Robyn Page and Phil Factor) Sometimes, when writing TSQL code in functions or procedures, it is tempting to do iterations, or even worse, a cursor, when it isn’t really necessary. Cursors and iterations are both renowned for slowing down Transact SQL Code SQL Server just isn’t designed for it.
Control presentation with ASP.NET 2.0’s FormView control
(Tony Patton) ASP.NET 2.0’s FormView control resembles the DetailsView control in that it facilitates the display of single records from a backend data source. This article drills down on the control’s syntax and application.