(Peter Aitken) When I was growing up, Atlas was a mythical guy with big muscles who held the world on his shoulders. There was — and still is — a wonderful statue of him at Rockefeller Center in New York City. And Ajax was something you used to clean the bathtub.
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IBM DB2 Content Manager V8 Configuring High Availability in a Microsoft Cluster Services Environment
(Pei Jun Chiang, Patricia Virtucio, Cataldo Mega, Anan Mahasintunan, Bruce Smith and Xin Chen) IBM DB2 Content Manager for Multiplatform V8.2 is an Enterprise-class application that customers might want to install and set up in a high availability configuration. Installing this kind of application
Do More With Less: Exploring Virtual Server 2005
(Anil Desai) Over the years, computing hardware performance has grown at a dramatic rate. There’s always some hungry application waiting to gobble up all that power, but many machines run at a small fraction of their total capacity, taking up precious space, administrative effort, and resources. If
Open Source Dot Net – The three Musketeers
There are at least three Open Source implementation of Microsoft’s Dot Net platform – Mono, DotGNU and Rotor. Though there are a few other implementations happening at some remote corners of the World Wide Web, these projects are insignificant at least at this point of time.
Oracle identifiers
(René Nyffenegger) In order not to make using Oracle confusing, there are some identifiers whose meaning must be totally clear if one want to work on Oracle.
HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML
(Henri Sivonen) There seem to be developers who think that well-formedness is awfully hard—if not impossible—to get right when producing XML programmatically and developers who can get it right and wonder why the others are so incompetent. I assume no one wants to appear incompetent or to be called
Power solutions with DB2 Express to deliver information on Demand
Get a technical introduction to the low-cost, high-value DB2 Express database server and why it’s an excellent option for developers, mid-market businesses, and partners. During this Software Development Platform webcast, you’ll learn how easy it is to install DB2 Express, the robust and reliable in
Put Some Muscle in Your Business
(David A. Kelly) For scientific and technical publishing giant Elsevier, building the second-largest UNIX-based online transaction processing (OLTP) database wasn’t about the technology achievement or awards it might win. It was all about serving the customer better.
More information on the zIIP specialty engine
(Willie Favero) Information about the IBM System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) specialty engine is slowly beginning to slip out. This entry will just be a few links to other materials.
Oracle 10g Scheduler Enhancements, Part 1
(Jim Czuprynski) As my responsibilities as an Oracle DBA have increased over the years, I have noticed a commensurate increase in ever-more complex requirements for scheduling tasks to occur at frequent – and sometimes less-than frequent! – intervals.