(Juan Rodriguez, Juan Pablo Andres, Gary Chang, Doug Grove, Matthew Perrins, Rafael Sanchez and Guillermo Villavicencio) This IBM Redbook covers the end-to-end story for pervasive solutions and provides implementation guidelines necessary for architects and application developers. IBM WebSphere Ever
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Storing Word Documents in Oracle
(James F. Koopmann) Have you ever wondered about storing documents into your Oracle database and just didn’t know where to start? Here is a quick introduction to the basics you need to know.
Achieve Regulatory Compliance with IBM’s Insurance Information Warehouse
The regulatory and reporting environment for insurers is changing at a dramatic pace and will keep changing for the next several years. Download this white paper to learn how IBM’s Insurance Information Warehouse can help you keep up with these volatile regulations. (R)
Step-by-Step Guide: How to interpret performance metrics in SQL Server 2005
(Jeremy Kadlec) SQL Server 2005 Profiler allows you to associate Profiler data and Performance Monitor metrics in one interface. Profiler is the native SQL Server tool used to capture SQL Server transaction performance metrics. Performance Monitor is the native tool to capture macro-level SQL Server
Oracle tool to rein in database admins
(Joris Evers) In the age of insider threats and regulatory compliance, Oracle doesn’t think administrators should have full reign over the information in databases they manage. The business software giant is readying new software that puts access restrictions on database administrators.
Efficient XML File Reading for Game Development
(Christoph Luerig) Modern game engines read a lot of data during game start up in nearly all sub-modules. The general data format XML is about to establish itself as the de facto norm in this area. One of its strength is ease of readability. Many standard tools and exporters for this format exist th
Seven Steps to XML Mastery: About This Series
(Frank Coyle) It’s been just about eight years now since XML arrived on the scene in the form of a W3C recommendation outlining the rules for writing one’s own tag-based language. Before XML there was SGML, another tag description language but considered too hefty to jumpstart the new breed of data-
Server Tuning, Log Shipping, Mirroring, and More
(Nancy Michell) Is it true that once mirroring becomes available, there is no reason to use log shipping anymore? It seems that mirroring is less functional than log shipping if you want to use the mirrored database for reporting. It also seems that mirroring only allows you to query against a datab
Advanced MySQL Replication Techniques
(Giuseppe Maxia) You may know about the MySQL Cluster, which is a complex architecture to achieve high availability and performance. One of the advantages of MySQL Cluster is that each node is a peer to the others, whereas in a normal replicating system you have a master and many slaves, and applica
How to cluster SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services on a cluster that is running a 64-bit version of Windows
(Sandy Yakob) This column provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up Analysis Services as a clustered service on a cluster that is running a 64-bit version of Windows. Although Analysis Services is not a cluster-aware application, you can install and configure Analysis Services as a generic