(Ember Crooks) This is a duplicate re-post, trying to deal with facebook link sharing issues. Ifm constantly discovering new features. Youfd think at this point that Ifd know the contents of the /opt/IBM/db2/V9.7/bin directory by heart. Especially since I intentionally went through everything in
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Modifying SCAN Listener Port
(Asif Momen) It’s been awhile since I’ve published a post on my blog. I have so many things to share but not able to find time to share. Hopefully, very soon I will get back to blogging. Here’s a quick post on modifying SCAN listener port.
Cost of Virtual Indexes (Little Lies)
(Richard Foote) I’ve previously discussed Virtual Indexes and how they can be used to do basic “what if” analysis if such an index really existed. However, a recent comment on the OTN forums regarding using them to compare index costs made me think a follow-up post regarding the dangers of Virtual I
RMAN BACKUP AS COPY
(Hemant K Chitale) By default the BACKUP command in RMAN creates BackupSet(s) — each of which is one or more BackupPiece(s). A datafile may span BackupPieces but may not span a BackupSet.
DB2 10 for zOS Migration Vendor Tips from the IDUG Conference
(Dave Beulke) The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference was last week and one of the great traditions is talking with all the DB2 vendors at the conference. Getting the latest information and understanding of their product strategies, directions and enhancements can be great for planning y
Custom Indexing for Latitude-Longitude Data
(James McCaffrey) In this article I describe a technique to create custom indexes for geographical data that contains latitude and longitude location information. Custom indexes allow quick, real-time retrieval of data. For example, consider the following scenario. Suppose you have a very large (sev
ASP.NET + IIS + DNS Records = Sub Domain on the Fly
(Nandip Makwana) Whenever any web portal provide hosted service, at that time publishing it through sub domain is the most convenient and preferable way. There are many such free hosted services are available on the internet. For e.g. blogger.com and wordpress.com for blog services. If you have noti
Abstract Class and Abstract Method in C#
(Manish Sharma) In this article I am going to explain abstract classes and abstract methods. With the help of abstraction we can achieve dynamic polymorphism i.e. the same method name in different classes but the same signature.
The View of Foreign Keys That I Wanted
(Michael J. Swart) So I’ve been working on an automation project that makes frequent use of foreign key metadata. I find myself writing queries for this data but I discovered that there’s no super-easy out-of-the-box view of foreign keys for me to use. Here are the ones I considered.
Beginning XSLT with DDRMenu for DotNetNuke – Part 2
(Armand Datema) In the first article of this series we dissected a DDRMenu XSL . Now we are going to make a few sample XSL menus based on a number of live use cases that you may run into while building menus for your skins.