By Thor Olavsrud – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday delivered a cornerstone of its Speech Interface Framework when it published VoiceXML 2.0. VoiceXML is intended to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response , or IVR, applicati
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Index Tuning Wizard Doesn’t See All
By Brian Moran – SQL Server needs a clear warning sign that lets you know that you need more than the Index Tuning Wizard to find the most efficient indexing strategy for your system, even though it’s helpful in simplifying the complex activity of selecting indexes.
Windows 2003 Supports Only SQL Server 2000 SP3 or Later
Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 product family doesn’t support SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and earlier releases.
Introduction to Problem Determination
This tutorial will give you the ability to accurately describe a problem and perform necessary problem isolation. It will also provide guidance to how you can find solutions to known problems.
Does DASD striping work with DB2 for z/OS and OS/390?
Robert Catterall responds to: After discussions with IBM reps, my company decided to use it in some of our large flat files. IBM said it worked with VSAM and that it should work with DB2. I thought it would have a big benefit with the load and unload utilities and cursors that pull in large volumes
Oracle Scales Out, Just Not Up, With Grid Plan
By Alan Zeichick – Grids, grids, grids, grids. Oracle Corp. could talk about little else at its annual OracleWorld conference, held here in mid-September. The event, which focused heavily on application development and database administration, served as the official announcement venue for the forthc
Tool to load DB2 table from native DB2 image copy
SearchDatabase.com ASK THE EXPERTS :Is there a tool available that will load a DB2 table from a native DB2 image copy?(R)
See Trends of Fetches of Continued Rows
by Robert Ware – Just seeing the number of chained rows does not tell how they are affecting performance in a system. The statspack report contains the number of fetches of continued rows for the report period both aggregated and per second. The following script allows one to see at what times of da
Taking the Pulse of XML Editing
by Kendall Grant Clark – In February, roughly coincident with XML’s five year anniversary as a technology standard, I wrote an XML-Deviant column (“The Pace of Innovation”) in which I discussed the future of XML, focusing on what is widely thought to be a slackening of the pace of its innovation. Pe
Building Distributed Database Apps in .NET Using BDP and DB2 UDB
By Ramesh Theivendran – This article introduces the basics of .NET remoting and shows how to remote data from one tier to another; and it shows how to convert the raw data into meaningful information.