(Dan Burger) To keep the wheels turning on the service oriented architecture (SOA) bandwagon, IBM has announced plans to introduce a new version of WebSphere Portal in the third quarter of 2006. When WebSphere 6.0 becomes generally available, it will replace the current product, WebSphere Portal for
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Controlling Dynamic SQL with DSCC
(Susan Lawson and Dan Luksetich) In today’s high performance computing environments we are bombarded with dynamic SQL more than we ever were in the past. Queries coming into our subsystems from products like DB2 Connect and Websphere are executed as dynamic SQL. This dynamic SQL creates problems suc
Faster Oracle Performance with Solid State Disks
(Woody Hutsell) This whitepaper discusses methods for improving Oracle database performance using solid state disks to accelerate the most resource intensive data that slows performance across the board. (pdf)
Enabling XML and SOA Applications with DB2 Viper
XML data is a key ingredient for solutions based on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and building XML aware and XML centric applications marks the next stage in the evolution of database programming. (R)
Metadata-morphosis
(Michael Curry) IBM recently announced a unified metadata services infrastructure that’s designed to ease metadata management, access, and sharing within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The IBM WebSphere Metadata Server will be generally available later this year as part of the Hawk release o
Coming soon – data quality firewall week
(Vincent McBurney) I am running another theme week next week, it is going to be data quality firewall week! Watch accurate data pass through the wall of fire. Be amazed at the jaw dropping tricks on display.
Mastering Ajax, Part 5: Manipulate the DOM
(Brett McLaughlin) If you followed my discussion in this series last month, then you got a first-hand look at what goes on when a Web browser displays one of your Web pages. As I explained then, when the HTML and CSS you’ve defined for your page is sent to a Web browser, it’s translated from text to
IBM DB2 Content Manager for iSeries, Part 9: Troubleshooting
(Jack Boswell) This article is a simplified user’s guide for troubleshooting problems that you encounter with Content Manager Standard Edition for iSeries. Much of the information for this document was assembled from the Information Center. Use this information in conjunction with the Information Ce
Subclassing Pages and Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0
(Wayne Berry) Sometimes the simplest things in ASP.NET 2.0 turn out to be the hardest things to implement. One example is trying to have a shared property across all your web pages. For example, let’s say that you want to have a User object that is on all of your pages and that object be initialized
Microsoft SQL Server I/O subsystem requirements for the tempdb database
Microsoft SQL Server requires that the I/O subsystem used to store system and user databases fully honor Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) requirements through specific I/O principals. These requirements are necessary in order to honor the ACID properties of transactions: Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, and D