by Puneet Bhandari – This script checks the locking activity in an Oracle database. This is very useful for finding out about locking problems, and it gives very detailed information to determine if SQL scripts needs to be optimized for locking issues.
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Big Blue retools database pricing
By Martin LaMonica – IBM is looking to increase the competitive pressure on its database rivals with the introduction of a revamped database pricing plan for small and medium-size businesses.
Oracle takes identity management to grid
By Ellen O’Brien – Oracle Corp. is touting its identity management capabilities in an attempt to show customers that whatever IBM can do, Oracle can do better.
Getting a Boost from DB2
By Michael L. Gonzales and Jon Rubin – Built-in business intelligence functions let DB2 handle data preparation so partner apps can do what they do best: Serve up actionable insight.
Porting to DB2 Version 7.2 from Sybase Adaptive Server or Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000
By Amyris V. Rada – If you are ready to port to DB2, sometimes the toughest part of the job can be just figuring out how to take what you know about one database product and map that to DB2. These guides map the architectures, terminology, programming APIs, and administration features of Sybase Adap
The Atom API
by Mark Pilgrim – Atom is an up-and-coming format for editing, syndicating, and archiving weblogs and other episodic web sites. The final details are still being hashed out, but that’s never stopped me before, having written several articles about XHTML 2. To understand the problems that Atom is des
W3C XForms 1.0 Hailed as Standard
By Clint Boulton – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday announced XForms 1.0 as an official recommendation, paving the way for a new way to present information via the Web as an improvement over Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
SeeBeyond ships integration suite, touts French win
SeeBeyond Technology Corp., Monrovia, Calif., on Wednesday announced the general availability of the latest version of its suite of application integration software. Also this week, the company announced that France’s state-run railroad has picked the SeeBeyond platform to integrate its software inf
Little by little, step by step: Splitting DB2 transactions
By Alexander Kuznetsov – Sometimes we need to insert, update or delete a lot of rows. Doing that in one SQL statement may be unwise. Even if the SQL statement is absolutely correct, it might fail for a very simple reason: the resulting transaction might be too large for your server to handle. Anothe
Denial of Service in IBM DB2 Universal Database
Aaron Newman of Application Security discovered that a Denial of Service (DoS) condition exists in IBM DB2 Universal Database.