(Felix Fong) Manage your SQLDB databases with ease, using an application you can quickly build and deploy on the IBM cloud platform, Bluemix. The application illustrated in this tutorial lets you open a console in an app running on the IBM Bluemix cloud platform, and run familiar DB2 commands, such
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Persisting Colors and Other Settings with Visual Basic
(Hannes Du Preez) Persisting information means to save information (of any type) and to retrieve it from the location to which it has been saved. With today’s article, I will show you two ways to save colors. Now, the first question that pops into your head might be: Why?
What’s Important in Coding Conventions
(Peter Vogel) I was having an e-mail exchange with a reader who commented that he was having trouble following my coding conventions. Among other issues, I seemed to arbitrarily capitalize variable names.
WPF Base Classes – MultiSelector
(Richard Carr) The one hundred and eighteenth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial looks at the base class for the DataGrid control. The MultiSelector class provides members that are common to controls where more than one item can be selected.
scope.$apply() May Return A Value In AngularJS
(Ben Nadel) When you’re inside an AngularJS directive, and you want to make a change that AngularJS needs to know about, you can call the scope.$apply() method. This evaluates the given expression (in the context of the current scope) and then triggers a digest on the $rootScope.
4 Reasons to Consolidate Databases to DB2 LUW
(Dave Beulke) As year-end budgets get finalized, and 2015 is planned out, you might want to reconsider your plans and look to consolidate any other database vendors into DB2 LUW.
Six Reasons to Love DBI Software’s pureFeat V6.1 Performance Management Suite
(laura) Our partners at DBI software have recently announced the release of the pureFeat V6.1 Performance Suite for IBM DB2 LUW. This tool makes it faster and easier than ever to fight the right fires fast. We think there are six top features which makes this the DB2 LUW tool to love:
Clients Determine Database Naming Convention
Do we really need to differentiate the type of object resulting in a dataset based on consumer usage? Most of the arguments I’ve heard for identifying the kind of object are based around the consumer, such as a reporting tool. Let’s consider tables and views first. The reason we put together views is so that the consumer does not need […]
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Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics–Part III
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics — Part III In the Part II of this series we briefly looked at the "Analytical Glossary of Requirements" Matrix. In this article we will try to understand how we construct the "Data availability matrix" for the requirement questions that were articulated in the "Analytical Glossary of Requirements". The term "data availability" is...

