(Nicholas Chase) Applets have always been designed to play in a “sandbox” in which they can’t hurt anything on a user’s system, so their security is tighter than that of their server-based application counterparts. For example, a Java application can easily make a network connection to another s
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Oracle9i RAC and PolyServe Matrix Server on xSeries and BladeCenter
(Martha Centeno) This Redpaper introduces the concept of flexible database clusters as a method for addressing the challenges inherent in the management of mission-critical database applications. The components selected for building a flexible database cluster include IBM BladeCenter and xSeries ser
An introduction to using the ADO.NET – SqlCommand Object
(Jon Winer) Are you familiar with using the Command object in ADO? If so, migrating to ADO.NET shouldn’t be as much of a headache as you might think. Here I discuss a couple of the methods available using ADO.NET’s SqlDataReader and SqlCommand objects that map well to coding practices commonly utili
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to DB2
(Craig S. Mullins) DB2 is a complex piece of system software that can be very intimidating for users to learn and master. There are a lot of details, parameter, syntax choices, and manuals that need to be understood. Difficulties can arise for a number of different reasons. This hitchhiker’s gui
.NET XML Best Practices: Writing XML Documents
(Aaron Skonnard) In the first part of this series, Choosing an XML API, I covered the numerous XML-related classes in .NET for reading and writing XML documents and discussed the characteristics of each. In the second part of this series, Reading XML Documents, I walked you through several practical
DB2 II: Performance Monitoring, Tuning and Capacity Planning Guide
(Nagraj Alur) This redbook provides an overview of DB2 Information Integrator key performance drivers, best practices to achieve optimal performance, and guidelines on monitoring a DB2 Information Integrator environment for capacity planning and problem diagnosis and resolution. (pdf)
SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Financial Reporting
The SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Financial Reporting is a set of six Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports that work with a sample financial database called FinSampleDB. With the Report Pack, you have the choice of using the sample reports either as-is or as templates for design
Introduction to MSSQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: Partitioning a Cube in Analysis Services – An Introduction
(William Pearson) We have touched upon partitions over the life of the Introduction to MSSQL Server 2000 Analysis Services series, as well as within other series at Database Journal. We recently discussed partitioning more specifically within our article Basic Storage Design, within which we introdu
Working with Image Objects in InfoPath 2003 and SQL Server 2000
(Anup Kafle) You can use features in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Service Pack (SP) 1 to work more efficiently with image objects and other data. Learn how to use BLOB data types to work with data stored in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database from an InfoPath form. InfoPath 2003 provides a ro
Simplifying EJB Development with EJB 3.0
(Debu Panda) Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) was introduced for building distributed components. When it arrived it came with a promise to solve all issues and complexities of CORBA. EJB being the heart of J2EE went through several major revisions and got fattened with many features. Early on, most of th