By Jeff Jones – DB2 UDB and the IBM DB2 information management portfolio represent one element of what IBM calls middleware, software that serves as the glue uniting systems and software applications. DB2 is one of five IBM Software brands: DB2, WebSphere®, Lotus®, Tivoli® and Rational. This article
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IBM to Offer DB2 Mastery Exam
By Lisa Vaas – The new DB2 Problem Determination Mastery Exam is designed to give database administrators the skills to investigate and isolate database issues such as the implementation of workarounds or fixes; to deal with common installation issues such as upgrades, instance creation and license
Programs vs. Utilities
By Jim Ruddy – DB2 programmers: Are your DBAs holding out on you? If they haven’t told you about utility functions you could use instead of maintaining Cobol or C programs, you should probably ask them to. Programmers Only columnist Bonnie Baker suggested that I put together a column about some topi
PeopleSoft clients look to stop Oracle takeover bid
Some PeopleSoft Inc. customers have rallied to stop Oracle Corp.’s $6.3 billion hostile bid to buy the business-software maker, and they’re not just defending PeopleSoft. The clients, who use PeopleSoft programs for payroll and accounting, want to protect their ability to choose database soft
The Road from Oracle8i to Oracle9i Certification
Follow along with James Koopmann as he travels the road from Oracle8i to Oracle 9i certification.
Free E-Books Can Help You Deliver Better BI Solutions
Brian Moran stumbled across two free Microsoft e-books that he thinks many SQL Server professionals will find valuable. Both books cover information that can help you use Microsoft technologies to deliver more effective BI and data-warehousing solutions.
Generate Autofixlogins – S2K SP3 :: (Script Library)
Category: Utilities Tags: Compatibility: SQL Server 2000 and later Description:
Generate Autofixlogins :: (Script Library)
Category: Utilities Tags: Compatibility: SQL Server 7.x and later Description:
Store and Retrieve XML-based Business Objects with SQL Server and .NET
by Evangelos Petroutsos – Combine SQL Server’s XML support and .NET XML serialization to simplify your front-end code by moving custom objects rather than DataSets between application layers and into and out of SQL Server.
Saxon 7.6
New support for XQuery 1.0 as well as XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. “The XQuery support has been implemented largely by writing an XQuery parser and generating the same internal interpretable code that is currently generated by the XSLT front end. Since there is very little functionality in XQuery that is