(Lockwood Lyon) The end-of-year holiday season is an important one for grocers, retailers, manufacturers, shipping companies and financial institutions. Millions of customers will buy billions of products, many of which will be purchased electronically and delivered to customers’ homes or offices.
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Get started with the Data Format Description Language
(Steve M Hanson) In this age of big data, the bulk of the data begging to be analyzed is not XML, but rather it is other structured and semi-structured formats, both text and binary. Until now, no open standard has been developed that is capable of describing a wide variety of such data formats.
Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Visual C++
(Ankit Asthana) Modern application customers are demanding applications be available for multiple device platforms (such as Windows, Android and iOS). Today there exist multiple approaches in writing applications which target these device platforms.
What Windows Server Groups Should I Audit on my SQL Servers?
(K. Brian Kelley) I’m responsible for the security of my organization’s SQL Servers. Lately I’ve been looking outside of SQL Server and wondering what I should be checking. Someone mentioned the Administrators group and that made me think about other groups on the server.
Finding Direct Indexes
(Michael McLaughlin) If you’re not using Toad DBA Suite, it’s sometimes hard to find solutions. Somebody wanted to know how to find indexes that aren’t indirect. Indirect indexes are those created for a primary key because a primary key column or set of columns are both not null and uniquely constra
Loading timestamp with timezone into a table using SQL Developer
(John Hallas) I will start this post off stating that I know there are better and more efficient methods of doing this but this is the best method I could come up with.
Oracle 12c Unified Auditing – Mixed Mode
Next in our blog series on Oracle 12 Unified Auditing is a discussion of Mixed Mode. Mixed Mode is the default auditing mode for Oracle 12c.
GeoJSON Functions
(Erik Frøseth) In recent years, GeoJSON has become a popular data format for exchanging GIS data due to several factors. The primary factors being that it’s easy to read, and it’s simple and lightweight.
Raising the Performance Bar
(Robert Catterall) A previous installment in this series describes the technology through which IBM DB2 11 for IBM z/OS data management raises the bar on high availability.1 In a similar vein, DB2 11 enhancements also raise the bar on performance. DB2 11 for z/OS takes a same-song-second-verse appro
Handling Peak Loads
Currently this is a big holiday season here in the United States. A big Part of this culture is the exchanging of gifts. Sales increase dramatically for a few weeks, and then drop back to normal levels. For Information Systems based on sales and the processing of sales loads also increase dramatically. If you’ve been around IT for long, you […]