(James Yaple) In the summer of 2003, Dr. Neil Gunther used several CMG MeasureIT articles to introduce what he called “Guerrilla Capacity Planning.” Since many of the factors involved in developing a performance model are unknown or uncertain, an accurate model can be difficult to construct. A “gue
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Cocoa: Working with XML
(Marcus Zarra) XML is fast becoming (some would argue that it has already become) the dominant file structure on the Internet. If your application “speaks” XML, it is assumed that it can communicate with any application on any other platform. Although this description is overly broad, the fact remai
The new reporting horizons with Microsoft Reporting Services 2005
(Madjarov.D.N) A few months ago I were involved to test and estimate new options which Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 provide to developers to make a better reports. One of these options is the great ability to use as a data source one ore more WebServices. Unfortunately the Microsoft Help which
DB2 label-based access control: A practical guide, Part 2: A step-by-step guide to protect sensitive data using LBAC
(Carmen K. Wong and Stan Musker) LBAC is a security feature introduced in the DB2 Viper release. With LBAC, administrators can control read and write access of user to a table column and row level. This tutorial includes use-case scenarios that demostrate how users can apply LBAC to protect their da
A Guide to Easing Oracle Applications Management: ZeroERROR Object Migration
In this guide, we will discuss many of the operational costs and resource drains of implementing and managing the Oracle E-Business Suite and discuss how to reduce effort and eliminate errors using a ZeroERROR object migration solution. (R)
SQL Server 2005 at 6 Months
(Scott Bekker) Six months after its launch, SQL Server 2005 remains free of showstopper bugs or known security issues. Still after five years between database releases, Microsoft hasn’t shown evidence yet that there’s huge pent-up demand for SQL Server.
Try and Catch Fun in SQL Server 2005
(Abdul (Rajib) Bahar) Try and Catch is very popular among the developer community writing code in C#, C++, or other high level languages. The conventional term referring to Try-Catch blocks is Exception Handling. Exception Handling is simply a breach of an application’s predefined assumptions. It en
Web services integration patterns for Java applications using open source frameworks, Part 1: Implementing invoke patterns
(Sukriti Goel and Parameswaran Seshan) There are four primary patterns for integrating Web services. In this first of a two-part series, we suggest ways to develop a service and client to invoke Web services for all four service end-point patterns, using popular open source frameworks. We discuss tw
Why Oracle Works the Way it Does (9) – Server Processes
(Dratz) A server process is one that handles user requests. When you type in a SQL statement, the server process handles the parsing and running of that SQL statement, reading datablocks from the SGA or datafiles (depending on whether or not the blocks (rows) have already been cached or not), and re
Deploying Contemporary Applications with ClickOnce
(Bill Sempf) Visual Basic was designed as a desktop, not enterprise, development language. If you will step with me into the Great Train to Yesteryear, you’ll remember that the TSO and mainframe computers—running COBOL programs and CICS screens against DB2 databases, largely—were the norm when Visua