(Christian Langanke) When software engineers come into touch with the world of semantic data for the first time, it may be difficult for them to grasp all the benefits and consequences at once. When I heard of RDF for the first time, I thought this concept could possibly impose more risks than benef
Other News
db2caem – Get Actual Row Counts in Your Explain Plans
(Ember Crooks) db2caem is a tool in 9.7 that reports actual row counts in your explain plan alongside your estimated row counts.
Moving a PHP application to DB2 from MySQL, Part 4: Deploy your application
(Daniel Krook, Yan Li Mu and Mark Nusekabel) Learn why you should move a PHP application to DB2, how to plan the migration, how to execute it, how to support it, and how to handle potential risks based on the experience of an IBM Intranet application case study.
Displaying SQL Baseline Plans
(Kerry Osborne) Since I’m on vacation and not “really” working, I thought I might have time to write up a quick blog post. The idea for this one was triggered by one of Maria Colgan’s presentations at Hotsos last week. Maria was talking about SQL Plan Management and Baselines and somehow got me thin
The case of the phantom ADF developer (and other yarns)
(Chris Muir) A few years of ADF experience means I see common mistakes made by different developers, some I regularly make myself. This post is designed to assist beginners to Oracle JDeveloper Application Development Framework (ADF) avoid a common ADF pitfall, the case of the phantom ADF developer
A new RDFa Test Harness
(Gregg Kellogg) Implementing the RDFa Test Suite as a modern Web application using Sinatra, Backbone.js and Bootstrap.js.
Tuning the DB2 on z/OS Data Warehouse
(Lockwood Lyon) Information technology must build, support, and tune databases that support business applications such as order entry, accounting, inventory or payroll. For these applications, typical database designs are derived from business rules and application requirements and are modified by e
New way of paging in SQL Server 2012 – Offset clause
For any web application, paging of records is a necessary requirement. We have written several posts in the past on how to achieve paging in Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 LUW. Those posts showed how paging can be achieved using CTE/custom procedural code/row_number() function (SQL Server), using rown
Event Broker for ASP.NET
(Keith) The Event Broker is an implementation of the Observer pattern. The key benefit of an Event Broker is that it offers a loosely coupled mechanism to broadcast and receive events. This is especially useful in ASP.NET where you want to raise events in one user control, say, and handle them in an
XSLT Inheritance
(Alistair Deneys) I like XSLT. Although if you’ve ever visited my codeflood website and had a look at my SashimiCMS you’d have guessed that. SashimiCMS is a CMS I created many years ago, all based on XML and XSLT. In fact, I currently use that CMS to manage codeflood.