(Craig S. Mullins) There have been some nice data validation improvements made to the IBM DSN1COPY utility in DB2 11 for z/OS. I suppose I should first explain what the DSN1COPY utility is before I talk about how it has been improved, so…
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DB2 Basics: MONREPORT
(Ember Crooks) If you’re mourning the loss of “RESET MONITOR ALL”, there are a number of ways you can address that. Ideally, you’d use this approach:
PowerShell and Text Mining Part I: Word Counts, Positions and Libraries
(Tim Smith) We’ve been evaluating text mining and are currently considering different approaches on how we can import and analyze the SQL Server data. As an organization familiar with numerical data, we have little experience with the basics of text mining for SQL Server and are curious about some o
Saving the MessageBoxViewer output to a SQL Server database
(Agustín Mántaras) The MessageBox viewer tool allow you to save the output in a SQL Server database.
Support for debugging lambda expressions with Visual Studio 2015
(Patrick Nelson) Anyone who uses LINQ (or lambdas in general) and the debugger will quickly discover the dreaded message “Expression cannot contain lambda expressions”. Lack of lambda support has been a limitation of the Visual Studio Debugger ever since Lambdas were added to C# and Visual Basic.