(Susan Visser) The exam that you need to pass to start your journey on the road to DB2 Certification is the DB2 Family Fundamentals Exam 730. This exam only contains questions for concepts that are common across all platforms that DB2 runs on.
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Introduction of BPEL 2.0 forEach activity – valuable loop and standard based successor to FlowN
(Lucas Jellema) BPEL 2.0 introduced the forEach activity – similar to for [-loop] found in many programming languages. Oracle SOA Suite 11g adopted BPEL 2.0, first in run time (PS2) and later in Design Time (JDeveloper) as well (PS3 an beyond). For BPEL processes created using BPEL 2.0, forEach is a
Using The Themes Helper In Razor Web Pages
(Mike Brind) Web site skinning is a concept where by a web application user can personalise their experience, by choosing from a selection of prepared themes or skins. Each theme or skin might offer a different design, or content, or both.
Using The RequireJS Build / Optimizer To Concatenate Modularized CSS Files
(Ben Nadel) A little while back, I started looking at RequireJS as away to organize and modularize my JavaScript code. And, while I am still getting my feet wet in modular JavaScript web application development, I can tell you that I have really enjoyed using RequireJS – and, that I plan to continue
Using RichFaces with JSF 2
(Joe Sam Shirah) RichFaces, like most other rich/Ajax component frameworks designed for use with JavaServer Faces (JSF), was extensively revamped for compatibility with the significant changes in JSF 2.
Be critical of what you did n be Logical to what you gonna do
(samkumar) This is going to be an offbeat post!!! You might not find a very good technical tip in this but I hope this will help you improve your attitude towards performance tuning…
Generating HTML Data Dictionary Reports with Oracle SQL Developer
(Jeff Smith) I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most people who use SQL Developer do not realize it has a fully-baked data modeling tool built into it. It’s not like we hide it, but we kind of hide it. To open the Data Modeler inside of SQL Developer, navigate to the View menu, and activat
Troubleshooting memory usage
(Marko Sutic) Last few days we had significant load problems with one of our database servers. Server was choking under minor database load which caused applications to be non-responsive.
Inside the Concurrent Collections
(Simon Cooper) The concurrent collections, located in the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace, were introduced in .NET 4 as thread-safe collections that could be used without locking, and there are plenty of posts and articles out on the interwebs giving an overview of the collections and how to
Configuring SQL Server Accent-Insensitivity
(Daniel Miller) This article describes the steps to re-configure SQL Server so that queries return accent-insensitive results. It includes source code (using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Shared Management Objects) to automate some of the steps in this procedure.