(Bradley Jones) When you start writing programs, you’ll quickly find that you need to keep track of different types of information. This might be the tracking of your clients’ names, the amounts of money in your bank accounts, or the ages of your favorite movie stars. To keep track of this informati
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Demystifying the use of items and parts in DB2 Content Manager
(Michael Schwartz) This article explains the various content retrieval options you can use and when to use each one based upon my experience of working with DB2 Content Manager, Version 8. This article first provides a listing of all the content retrieval options with a description of each option, t
DB2 Universal Database and the PHP Developer? Absolutely!
(Paul C. Zikopoulos) In this article, I explore the features that make programming PHP-based DB2 UDB applications as seamless as possible and ultimately shorten the development cycle for these types of applications.
Retrieving SQL Server 2005 Database Info Using SMO: Database Info, Table Info
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article is the second in a series focusing on retrieving SQL Server 2005 information using SMO along with Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. With the basics covered in the previous article, this one goes right into technical information.
Insight of Garbage Collector
(Abey George) Common Language Runtime requires that all resources be allocated from the managed heap. Objects are automatically freed when they are no longer needed by the application. When a process is initialized runtime will allocate a contiguous region of address space. This region we call it as
Introducing Perst, an Open Source, OO Embedded Database for .NET
(Ted Kenney) On February 6, 2006, McObject announced its official release of Perst, an open source, object-oriented embedded database for Java and C#. In addition to high performance and a modest footprint, one of Perst’s greatest achievements is its tight integration with Java and C#, resulting in
Simple and Efficient Multi-threading with Blocking Queues
(Garry Barclay) I’m British. Someone once told me the definition of being British is “If it moves: apologize to it; if it doesn’t: form an orderly queue behind it”.
FastSOA: Accelerate SOA with XML, XQuery, and native XML database technology
(Frank Cohen) Many software architects use XML in their service-oriented architecture (SOA) designs even though no SOA standard requires or gives guidance on using XML in SOA. Consequently, the software development community is engaging in many experiments and investigations to find the best way to
JSF and AJAX
(Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows) To use AJAX and Mozilla XUL with JSF, component writers have to make sure to provide any resource files needed by these technologies, such as images, style sheets, or scripts. The standard approach to providing resource files for a JSF component library is to serve th
Monitoring DB2
(Philip K. Gunning) In this chapter we cover DB2 monitoring and start out with an introduction to the concepts of online monitoring and exception-based monitoring, and then address in detail the DB2 UDB monitoring facilities to use in order to conduct these two essential monitoring activities. (pd