(Trey Johnson) SQL Server 2005’s Integration Services feature fulfills the core needs of ETL (Extract Transform and Load) within the enterprise. This technology isn’t your old Data Transformation Services (DTS), but you can learn new techniques that will make ETL successful for you today. Learn how
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Using Discontiguous Shared Segments and XIP2 Filesystems With Oracle Database 10g on Linux for IBM System z
(Lydia Parziale, Bruce Frank, Tony Noto, Barton Robinson and Tom Russell) Linux on IBM System z offers many advantages to customers who rely on IBM mainframe systems to run their businesses. Linux on IBM System z takes advantage of the qualities of service in the IBM System z hardware and in z/VM Ñ
Write a Custom Outlook Add-In with Visual Studio Tools for Office
(Laurence Moroney) Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is an add-on to Visual Studio 2005 that gives developers much more direct IDE support and easier access to the rich programming model provided by the Microsoft Office platform than did previous versions of Visual Studio. VSTO simplifies buildi
Update on which zIIP fixes are shipping and some new zIIP eligible workload
(Willie Favero) My entry today is a short update on what has been happening with the zIIP specialty engine as of the end of June. You may also want to take a look at my APAR update for the zIIP specialty engine (from 6/19/20006) post for additional information on zIIP APARs and the links to my post
Implementing the commit() and rollback() Methods with mysqli and PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) If you want to use the “mysqli” extension, you’ve come to the right place. This is the second part of the series “Using mysqli with PHP 5.” Welcome back. In three tutorials, this series shows how to use the most important methods and properties included in the “mysqli” extension
The importance of sibling clustering for efficient bulkload of XML document trees
(C. C. Kanne and G. Moerkotte) Loading large amounts of data which is already available in an external format is called a bulkload operation. In conventional database management systems (DBMSes), bulkloads are often used to initialize a database, for example, when introducing an application to DBMS
Turbocharge Your Pages with AJAX, Dojo, and Struts
(Doug Tillman) You’d have to be developing web pages on another planet not to have heard the buzz about AJAX (asynchronous Java and XML). Judiciously employed, AJAX calls can enhance the usability of a site and add functionality to create eye-catching browser client applications. This article will s
Eight key tools for Oracle apps developers
(Mark Brunelli) Attendees of the recent New England Oracle Applications User Group conference got a refresher course on some of the key tools that Oracle developers use to customize E-Business Suite applications. (R)
SQL Server vs. MySQL
(Serdar Yegulalp) Microsoft SQL Server is far from being the only database management system for Windows. Among SQL Server’s contenders are commercial applications like Oracle and freebies like MySQL. But free availability has left many people questioning how well an open source system stacks up aga
IBM Tivoli monitoring for Q Replication
(Daniel Martin) IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a family of products designed to monitor the health and performance of your enterprise applications. This article shows you how to access Q Replication monitoring information, how to bring this data into the Tivoli Platform, and how to use Tivoli alerts and s