(Stuart Litel) In my role as president of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG), I answer a lot of questions from Informix users. Three questions in particular arise again and again: Are there any administrative tools to help me with Informix? Where can I get help with Informix performance?
Author: SSWUG Research
DB2 archive log datasets
(Willie Favero) I think for my next couple of posts, I’ll address stuff that revolves around disk. This first entry will be short but it covers something that I find a lot of people have trouble understanding. The use of virtual tape with DB2.
Problem Avoidance for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
(Rica Weller, Per Fremstad, Kiet Nguyen, Suresh Maddukuri and Rajesh Pericherla) This Redpaper is intended for system programmers and administrators who need an efficient way to identify problems, analyze them, and fix them so that they can deliver good support for the WebSphere Application Server f
Warning message when you install MMC 3.0 and you are running SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: ‘MMC has detected an error in a snap-in.’
Consider the following scenario. You are running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. You install Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0. In this scenario, you may receive the following warning message: MMC has detected an error in a snap-in. It is recommended that you shut down and resta
The Four Horsemen of Replication
(Josh Berkus) The real point I’m making today is that there are at least four kinds of replication, and at least four kinds of clustering. Not terribly profound, but you wouldn’t believe the number of journalists and punchasing managers to whom I’ve had to explain it.. People who are not well-acquai
5 Cool Things You Must Know About the New Office 2007 File Formats
(Ty Anderson) Office 2007 features a new default XML file format that opens a new world of development scenarios to .NET developers. This article explains the developer benefits provided by the new Office Open XML File formats that will be released as part of the 2007 Microsoft Office System. After
A Kick-Start to SAX with C++, Part 3
(Marius Bancila) This is the third and last article of this series. In the first article, you saw what SAX is, what the Microsoft COM implementation of SAX is, and how to write a simple parser of a XML document. In the second article, you saw how to work around the limitation of having a single hand
Insert /retrieve an image into/ from a blob field in Oracle database using C#.Net
(Ehanth Lingam) The following code will help you to create a table called “emp” in oracle database with three fields namely id, name, photo. The field photo is a blob field for which you are going to insert an image as the value using the code. The image size may be anything even in GB as the blob
Saving app settings as XML
(Kato) This is my first article. I hope that my code and findings are helpful to other members of The Code Project. Much of this work was done as a learning experience. Did my best to comment the code to support NDoc.
Object Binding Tips and Tricks
(Deborah Kurata) Gaining the full potential of object binding requires more than just dragging and dropping your properties onto forms. In this article I’ll present a few tricks you need to know to get the most from your object binding.