(Ember Crooks) Specifies whether or not the database manager can use Intra-partition parallelism. Intra-partition parallelism allows db2 to apply more than one cpu to processing a query.
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DB2 10 Performance Improvements
(Dave Beulke) There are many great features in DB2 10 and as the system migrations happen more companies are experiencing improved performance. The clients doing migrations from DB2 Version 8 to DB2 10 are especially happy experiencing the performance improvements in DB2 Version 9 once they make it
.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 Beta: What you need to know
(Justin James) Amongst all of the hoopla around the Windows 8 Consumer Preview launch at the end of February, it was easy to miss the release of the Visual Studio 11 Beta and updates to other .NET technologies. While there isn’t too much more here that wasn’t known beforehand (the ASP.NET Web API is
DIFFs and Alter Scripts via Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
(Jeff Smith) This post is not a ‘How to Version Your Models’ tutorial. We have that in movie form in the Oracle Learning Library (OLL.) It’s about 13 minutes long and steps you through how to add a model to source control via Subversion, how to make changes, commit said changes, and how someone else
Bug with dynamic sampling in 11.2.0.3
(Dominic Brooks) Sod’s Law part II (part I was a block corruption on production during the penultimate dress rehearsal): FIVE days before go-live of an 11gR2 upgrade, we’re hit on a development database by Oracle bug 13505390.
How to convert an Internet HTML Table to CSV format in SQL
(Frank Zhou) The following SQL pattern can be used to transform an HTML Table on the web to CSV format.
MySQL 5.6 too verbose when creating data directory
(Giuseppe Maxia) When I install a MySQL package using MySQL Sandbox, if everything goes smoothly, I get an informative message on standard output, and I keep working.
Implementing SSL encryption for SQL Server in a DNS forwarding environment
(HarshDeep_Singh) Let’s say you have an environment which implements DNS forwarding. In such a setup, the client uses a different name (or FQDN) while connecting to SQL Server than the actual SQL Server name (or FQDN). The connection request is forwarded to actual SQL Server through DNS forwarding i
Ensuring data quality for multilingual data using IBM InfoSphere Information Server
(Bharath Kumar Devaraju and Rachit Arora) With ever-growing importance for data quality in growth markets, many companies have an immediate need to cleanse unstructured data. However, one of the challenges during this exercise is language. Countries such as India, where there are multiple languages,
A Generic ASP.NET MVC Template
(Dino Esposito) Part of the power of Visual Studio lies in the many templates it offers when you are about to start a new project. Just as every journey begins with a small step, any software project, regardless of the final size, begins with a new project. For ASP.NET MVC in particular, what would
