(Antone Gonsalves) Oracle Corp. unveiled a suite of components that enable large corporations to provide a single sign-on and authentication mechanism for accessing mainframe, client/server and Web applications.
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Adding MDC to DPF and Partitioned Tables
(Chris Eaton) In my last posting I talked about combining table partitioning and DPF to get very high levels of parallelism, scalability and simplified roll-in and roll-out. DB2 also has a technology called Multi Dimensional Clustering (MDC – available since 2002) which provides a great performance
Frictionless data: let it flow
(Joab Jackson) Think information sharing at your agency is difficult? It took an order from the president to get intelligence agencies to start to pool their resources.
DB2 goes hybrid: Integrating native XML and XQuery with relational data and SQL
(K. Beyer, R. Cochrane, M. Hvizdos, V. Josifovski, J. Kleewein, G. Lapis, G. Lohman, R. Lyle, M. Nicola, F. Özcan, H. Pirahesh, N. Seemann, A. Singh, T. Truong, R. C. Van der Linden, B. Vickery, C. Zhang and G. Zhang) Comprehensive and efficient support for XML data management is a rapidly increasin
DB2 Universal Database: Productivity Features of the SQL Builder, Part 6
(Paul Zikopoulos) In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how to use the Database Explorer view in the IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software (Rational AD) product to create and work with IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) for Linux, UNIX, and Windows database connections. Part 2
Develop forms using the Visual XForms Designer
(Jan Joseph Kratky, Keith Wells and Kevin E. Kelly) The W3C developed the XForms standard for the presentation and collection of form data. As stated in the W3C Recommendation, XForms is intended to be “the next generation of forms for the Web.” XForms provides a number of advantages over existing H
A Different View on AJAX
(edmon) This blog post is sort of a reaction on the recent article on CNET by Alex Krapf.
Making Sense of the XML DataType in SQL Server 2005
(Shawn Wildermuth) As database developers, many of us have had to dip our feet into the wide ocean of XML.
Microsoft .NET Terminologies at a Glance
(Joydip Kanjilal) My objective in designing this article is to put an end to the arduous struggle of an IT professional seeking an understandable resource for the core terminologies of Microsoft.NET. Let me save you valuable time and energy by providing you with an article that gives you many of th
Using Query Builder in the Oracle 10g Express Edition
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) In an earlier tutorial we saw how to use SQL commands in the Oracle 10g Express Edition, or simply Oracle XE. We also saw how to use the PL/SQL commands as well. In this tutorial we will see how to use the Query Builder, the graphical interface for fashioning and running SQL i