By Ellen O’Brien – By now, in-memory databases were supposed to be all the rage. In the late 1990s, when hard drives were smaller than they are now, and industry analysts were predicting huge demand from Web-based businesses in need of high-transaction, 24/7 caching capabilities, it seemed in
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DB2 Certification
I’m planning on taking the DB2 certification exam. Where can I go for information?
ISO to Require Royalties?
by Kendall Grant Clark – Most XML developers know that these two-letter country codes come from the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), particularly ISO 3166.But now it has come to the attention of the W3C, as well as various other communities, that the ISO is thinking abou
relaxng-user — Mailing list for users of RELAX NG
This mailing list is for anything related to the use of RELAX NG. Questions from new users are welcome.
Required Reading from the DBA’s Bookshelf
To be a successful DBA, you must have an inquisitive mind and a desire to learn. Much of the DBA’s knowledge will be self-taught, especially in these days of austere budgets and cost cutting. One of the most cost-effective ways to learn something new is by reading. Fortunately, there is no shortage
Review: Visual XSLT
By Darshan Singh – Having the right tools in the developer toolbox increases the productivity and accelerates the implementation cycle. If you are already using or planning to use XPath/XSLT in your applications, one tool we would recommend is Visual XSLT by ActiveState. Visual XSLT is designed to h
DB2 UDB Dominates 100GB TPC-H
IBM has published two new DB2 Universal Database benchmark results that show a clear leadership for handling complex query workloads typical of business intelligence applications. The benchmarks demonstrate performance using the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s TPC-H benchmark which is d
Is DB2 v.7.2 compatible with the SQL interface and drivers of DB2 OLAP Server?
DB2 OLAP Server has an SQL interface that allows to access RDBMS sources via ODBC.
DBA Call to Action: Oracle Database Integrity
James Koopmann offers a refresher on database integrity, and why it’s important.
Oracle announces database, app server records on Linux
By Michael S. Mimoso – Oracle Corp. announced a record four-processor TPC-C single-system benchmark for an Oracle database 10g on a Hewlett-Packard Integrity rx5670 Itanium 2 64-bit server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0. The database server achieved 136,110.98 tpmC with a price