(Willie Favero) It sometimes seems like we just recently (around December, 1993) added this “new function” to DB2. Some of you may have heard of it or maybe even read about it. After all, it was in all the announcements and discussed in the latest documentation. It was this little thing called data
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Practical business graphing with SVG and XML
(Jack D. Herrington) Learn to build business graphs using XML, PHP and the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard. The SVG standard gives your graphics infinite vector scalability, visual effects, and even scripted interactivity.
Back to basics: Scripting Apache Derby’s ij tool
(Nicholas Chase) Everybody’s building Web applications these days. But what if you just want a little bit of data? Do you really need to go to the trouble of creating a whole application? Doesn’t Derby provide a tool for that? Well, of course it does. Derby’s main command line tool, ij, is designed
Using the Atlas Control Toolkit
(Dan Wahlin) The sample code demonstrates using the following Atlas Control Toolkit controls. It is still fairly early in the toolkit development lifecycle so the controls and their behaviors may certainly change.
Oracle packs SOA in PeopleSoft tools upgrade
(Dawn Kawamoto) Oracle has launched PeopleTools 8.48, an upgrade designed to offer Web services functionality and serve as an entry point into Oracle’s Fusion Middleware.
Oracle’s summer update fixes 65 flaws
(Bill Brenner) Oracle Corp. fixed 65 security holes in its latest quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU). The flaws affect a variety of products, including the vendor’s database and application server software. (R)
Evolving Grid Management
(David Baum) Oracle Magazine spoke with Noel Yuhanna, a senior analyst covering database technologies at Forrester Research, about new trends in enterprise grid management
Where Do You Begin Implementing Performance Management?
(Gary Cokins) As organizations embrace the full vision of performance management – not just the narrow financial definition of better budgeting, planning and control – they frequently ask, “Where should we start?” Some may be eager to begin with a balanced scorecard, others by measuring channel and
Introducing DB2 9: Application development enhancements
(Rav Ahuja) DB2 9 (formerly codenamed “Viper”) provides numerous enhancements that simplify database application development, reduce development time, and improve developer productivity. In addition to providing a platform for robust enterprise applications, DB2 9 is also optimized for rapidly build
The SQL Server 2005 Setup program does not remove all IP address cluster resources when you uninstall SQL Server 2005
Consider the following scenario. You run the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup program to uninstall a virtual server instance of SQL Server 2005 in a cluster environment. You have more than one IP address cluster resource that is allocated to the cluster group of the SQL Server service. In this scenar