Database-Brothers, Inc. (DBI), an industry leading provider of database performance and accountability solutions for Oracle and DB2 LUW, has announced a new version of Brother-WatchDog, a breakthrough software solution designed to capture and record database activities to create immutable audit trai
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An opinion on upgrading to DB2
(Willie Favero) What do all of the above numbers have in common? Well, if you assume that DB2 for z/OS Version 8 was announced at 8:00 EST on March 26, 2004 and I made this post at about 3:00 PM EST today (Nov 16), then all of those numbers are approximations of how long DB2 V8 has been generally av
SELECT Statement: The GROUP BY Clause in SQL
(Rick F. van der Lans) The GROUP BY clause groups rows on the basis of similarities between them. You could, for example, group all the rows in the PLAYERS table on the basis of the place of residence; the result would be one group of players per town. From there you could query how many players the
The State of Things
(Peter Aitken) The fundamental technologies of the Web, HTTP and HTML, are by their very nature stateless. In other words, they do not provide a way to keep track of information between page views. Of course, many of the things we do on the Web require that state information be maintained in some wa
Oracle Fusion Applications: The customer view
(Dale Vile) Following the acquisition of PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems, only a short time after PeopleSoft had itself acquired JD Edwards, software giant Oracle became the proud owner of four ERP and three CRM product lines, all originally developed on different platforms and having different toolin
People are reflecting on XML after 10 years
(Mike Champion) Although XML wasn’t officially released as a W3C Recommendation until February 1998, the effort that led to it began about 10 years ago. One recent anniversary is the first public working draft released on November 14, 1996. Another is its first public presentation at the SGML 19
MySQL Enterprise Support Options Hit The Street
(Barbara Darrow) MySQL’s new enterprise-class support option, including a new network monitoring dashboard, is now available, the company said.
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VB.Net Yield Return Iterator
(Matthew Cochran) One interesting new feature of the VB.Net is the “yield” keyword. Basically it is used to iterate through objects returned by a method. It creates a state engine in IL so you can create methods that retain their state and dont have to go through the pain of maintaining state in yo
A Secure Way of Building Connection Strings
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) Data sources hold some of the most important enterprise information. Securing this information is a top priority for any enterprise. Data sources are accessed through the connection string, a collection of name/value pairs connected with UserID, Password, Data Source Name, etc