(Dinesh Chandnani) Version 1.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework provided a very flexible design-time architecture, but offered virtually no implemented code to actually create and host designers. All of the hosting logic was implemented in Visual Studio .NET, requiring third parties to rewrite all of
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Ask the Doc Detective
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Just ask—if it’s in there, I’ll find it for you; if it isn’t, I’ll let you know that as well (and tell you where else you might go to find it).
What’s new in DB2 Viper
(C. M. Saracco) The new DB2 “Viper” release, now in beta, features a significant architectural departure from prior versions. For the first time since its debut, DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows is providing a new query language, new storage technology, new indexing technology, an
Case Study of Building a Data Warehouse with Analysis Services (Part One)
(Baya Pavliashvili) Data warehousing has been around for decades. Yet, many businesspeople and quite a few technical folks don’t know what it takes to build a warehouse. Most people think that a warehouse is a data store that contains all data within the enterprise, is built within a couple of weeks
Life with XAML
(scott) British mathematician John Conway invented the “Game of Life” in 1970. The rules of the game are simple, but the results of the game can be surprising. This combination made Conway and his creation famous, and stirred the debate over the ability of machines to simulate life. Although the “Ga
FIX: When you query a view that was created by using the VIEW_METADATA option, an access violation may occur in SQL Server 2000
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, when you query a view that was created by using the VIEW_METADATA option, an access violation may occur.
Altering Oracle’s SQL*Plus Help Facility
(James F. Koopmann) Everyone needs a little help now and then. If you have never used Oracle’s help facility, venture with me and find new ways you can provide benefit to your users of SQL*Plus through this simple interface.
An emerging XML Web services security infrastructure
(Ed Tittel) Anybody who’s been following application development trends for any time knows that Web Services is fast becoming the veritable “hot seat” of the development world. It’s where the action (and the money) is, and has become a line of business if not an outright obsession for everybody from
Webcast – The IBM System z9: The Ultimate Data Server
(Willie Favero) Over the last two weeks ( January 24, 2006, February 1, 2006, and February 9, 2006 ), I have posted a couple of entries about our System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) specialty engine. There is now a webcast scheduled to cover the zIIP along with some other items in a di
DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) for Linux with DRBD and Heartbeat: A Low-Cost Open Linux High Availability Solution
(Anand Subramanian and Melody Ng) This paper discusses a low-cost high availability (HA) solution for the IBM DB2 Universal Database product (DB2 UDB) Version 8.2 on the Linux platform using the open source Linux-HA project (Heartbeat) and Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) software packages