(Joris Evers) Last year, the technology maker bought more than a dozen companies. Now it’s picking up tips from those operations and using them in a major overhaul of its business applications software, an initiative called Project Fusion. Other products and processes are benefiting, too.
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DB2 Universal Database Version 8 FixPak 11 (also known as Version 8.2 FixPak 4)
DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) FixPaks are general FixPaks that can be applied on all DB2 UDB products. This includes DB2 Connect, with the exception of Windows platforms.
Programming OTL using PostgreSQL and ODBC in the Windows environment: a step-by-step guide
(ccrosetti) The purpose of this article is to show how to configure ODBC under Microsoft Windows for readiness to programming a C++ OTL application with the PostgreSQL database. This article is an iteration on my previous article on the Solaris platform. You are going to see how portable is the samp
Connect Non-SOAP HTTP Requesters and Providers to WebSphere Application Server V6 Enterprise Service Bus
(Greg Flurry) Last month’s article shows you how to connect non-HTTP service requesters and providers to the IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 Service Integration Bus. This lets requesters and providers leverage the integration capabilities of an enterprise service bus. In this continuation we pi
Manipulating Objects in PL/SQL and SQL
(Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl) In this section we look more deeply into the constructs and concepts you will need in order to master to use objects in your applications. There are three different ways you can initialize an object: –Use the default constructor –Make a direct assignment –
Cursor In, Cursor Out
(Mark A. Williams) A ref cursor is a reference to a result set that resides in server memory. When a ref cursor is opened, no data is initially returned to the client. Instead, the address where the data resides is passed to the client and the client can choose how and when to process the data repre
Obtain important file information with these PHP file functions
(Mellonfire) As a Web developer, it’s common to have to interact with files on disk: check disk usage, read file permissions, find file modification times, and read file contents. Fortunately PHP comes with a full-fledged set of file functions for just this purpose and this document lists them all,
RACing ahead with Oracle on VMware Series – Part 7
(Tarry Singh) I have gotten many e-mails from professionals and novices alike, and can fully understand the sentiment of taking all the pains of getting ready to install the Oracle installer (Clusterware is more sensitive to this), and then it just won’t budge beyond an error. In one sense, it is go
TGIF: .Net framework and its design goals
(george.p.alexander) “George! You’re giving a .Net framework presentation for the team….next Friday.” So busy and hooked up on my project at work last Friday, I almost missed that one liner from my boss. I gave a “yeah…sure boss!” and went back to work forgetting about the whole thing in the mids
Create and Manage Multiple J2EE Deployment Descriptors During your Build Cycle
(Steve Taylor) J2EE developers working in a standard lifecycle model often face challenges in managing deployment descriptors for the different lifecycle stages. In larger J2EE development environments where IT governance is an issue, developers follow a strict process of promoting their J2EE applic
