Five new webcasts are scheduled for October, covering such topics as Analysis Services, Business Intelligence and more.
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Preparing for and Tuning the SQL Query Engine on DB2 for i5/OS
(Hernando Bedoya, Nicolas Bueso Quan, Monti Abrahams, Luis Guirigay, Sabine Jordan, Dave Martin, Barry Thorn, Steve Tlusty and JaeHee Yang) The IBM System i family, which encompasses the IBM AS/400, eServer iSeries, eServer i5, and System i5, has a successful 24-year history of satisfying hundreds o
Oracle Promises Security In Fusion But Customers Will Have To Wait
(Larry Greenemeier) Oracle announced its next steps in its security strategy, disclosing plans to integrate security into its applications line and broaden Secure Enterprise Search.
MySQL drops support for BerkeleyDB
(Eric Lai) Open-source database maker MySQL AB has quietly dropped support for BerkeleyDB, the embedable database Oracle acquired in February.
Memory cache for collections of objects
(Pierre Couderc) This template class implements a cache for memory objects. You can use it when you have a large collection of objects, that you do not want to put entirely in memory, but you need anyway to use some of them with quick access.
Set up an SQL realm with DB2 Express-C, Eclipse WTP, and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V1.1
(Krishnakumar Balachandar) This tutorial shows you how to set up an SQL realm to implement database security for a Web application using the no-charge Java kick-start package. (R)
SQL Server clustering best practices
(Hilary Cotter and Geoff Hiten) SQL Server clustering is a high-availability technology for SQL Server instances. It involves the sharing of server resources between one or more nodes (or servers), which have one or more shared disks grouped into logical units called resource groups. A resource grou
Implement news syndication using RSS and Atom
(Ying Ying Lin) The advent of RSS and Atom technologies brings a bright new era of news syndication. It takes time, however, for Web site administrators to publish the news manually every day and to manage e-mail subscribers. This article shows how to implement a general news publication architectur
Oracle RAC Administration – Part 5: Administering the Clusterware and ASM Storage
(Tarry Singh) Oracle’s shopping spree has resulted in a 30% increase in earnings; (Siebel was the hero by the way). Oracle is setting the stage, aggressively moving into the BI world. Business Object will eventually be the next in line. I even predict that educational software, LMS (Learning Managem
Open source databases taking over
(Matt Asay) Zack Urlocker is at the Gartner Open Source Summit this week, and has been hearing some good things about open source databases. Open source databases (Sleepycat, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) have been around for a long time, but the analysts didn’t give them much credit because even though