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IBM Advances New Linux Database Clusters To Help Businesses Keep Pace With Growth
IBM announced new Linux database clusters to help businesses of any size implement a low cost, high performance data center based on IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux and the IBM eServer 325 systems that IBM is also introducing this week.
IBM Opteron server gets down to work
By John G. Spooner – IBM’s newest eServer, an Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron machine, will debut as part of a new computing cluster that will rank among the top ten high-performing computers in the world.
Vulnerabilities that won’t go away
By Gregg Keizer – Security flaws have a half-life, just like radioactive materials, according to new research unveiled this week at the Black Hat security meetings being held in Las Vegas. Critical vulnerabilities, such as SQL Slammer, Code Red, and the in-the-news Microsoft Windows DCOM Remo
How to move SQL Server from one computer/server/machine to another?
Moving SQL Server from one computer to another is not a very difficult thing to do, but it often stumps newbie DBAs. Of course, it needs careful planning to ensure that the SQL Server is moved completely and properly to the new machine, and with a minimal downtime and no data loss. This article intr
Application Performance Tuning for DB2 OS/390 and z/OS: Finding the Relevant Candidates
By Dirk Johann and Ralf Neumann – The prerequisite to implementing quality assurance measures is in recognizing and measuring relevant SQL changes in DB2 applications. This white paper introduces manual methods that can be used to determine such changes, and presents in addition a tool-supported sol
An Oracle for the Future
Oracle’s bid for PeopleSoft, now including JDE, appears to have two goals: eliminating competitors and building a size that compares more favorably to SAP’s. Neither objective offers much to customers. Further, there’s considerable confusion over whether Oracle will support PeopleSoft product
Oracle sees future in grids
By Martin Veitch and Gareth Morgan – Oracle will plug into grid computing with the next release of its database software in September. The firm disclosed last week that the product will be called 10G Database, with the suffix hinting at the importance of support for the grid model, where idle
IBM To Add Order To XML
IBM plans to release next year a software tool that will improve DB2 Content Manager’s ability to manage the many different XML documents used by enterprises. Code-named “Cinnamon,” the utility will be integrated with the administrative tools for Content Manager’s repository. The new tool wil
Pagination Using DB2 UDB and JSPs
By Naveen Balani – This article explains how to display DB2 UDB search results in chunks of pages, using either through the rownext() feature provided in the product, or a Java stateful bean or HttpSession. It also details the pros and cons of each method.