By Robert Westervelt – Got mentors? What about a backup plan? For rookie DBAs and experienced pros alike, Oracle guru Robert Freeman has tips on how to look good on the job.
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IBM boosts Linux offerings
By Ellen O’Brien – Demonstrating its commitment to Linux and increasing its continuing head-to-head competition with Oracle Corp., IBM announced the DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (ICE) for Linux and extended support for the open-source platform.
DB2 and the Need for Speed
By Joel Goldstein – Simply stated, DB2 response time is never fast enough unless it’s sub-second. IBM has said that productivity improves by 100% when improving response time from 2 seconds to less than one second. Joel’s presentation reviews what you can do to achieve better response times.
Develop a Websphere MQ and Visual Studio .Net app
DB2 UDB has great integration with WebSphere MQ messaging. Learn how to use the DB2 Development Add-ins for Visual Studio .NET to build an order application.
Sequential Numbering/Counting of Records with SQL Server
By Gregory A. Larsen – Microsoft SQL server does not support a method of identifying the row numbers for records stored on disk, although there are a number of different techniques to associate a sequential number with a row. This article will show various different methods of assigning a record seq
Microsoft prepares for Yukon, Longhorn
By Martin LaMonica – The software maker plans to release an update to its Visual Studio.Net development tool bundle, code-named Whidbey, in the latter half of 2004, timed to coincide with the introduction of an overhaul to its SQL Server database, code-named Yukon.
Asynchronous SAX
by David Mertz – Even though every abstract description of SAX prominently mentions that it is an event-driven interface, very few SAX applications really use SAX for event-driven programming. Instead, SAX is mostly just a way to save memory while extracting data from an XML document. However, over
Create the Web.config File for an ASP.NET Application
This step-by-step article describes how to create the Web.config file for an ASP.NET application. The .NET Framework, and ASP.NET in particular, uses XML-formatted .config files to configure applications. This practice is a departure from conventional registry and metabase configuration mechanisms.
Can XML solve data federation conundrum?
By Rich Seeley – Snapbridge Software, a start-up company based in San Diego, claims to have solved the problem of enterprise data federation with a combination of XML standardization and algorithms developed by its engineering team.
Disaster Recovery Reporting scripts
By Joseph Sack – Have you ever been asked a seemingly simple question about a SQL Server configuration, and realize that you do not remember (or do not know) the answer?Some information is critical to rebuilding your SQL Server machine in the event of a disaster. I’ve compiled seven question