(Ben Nadel) Lately, I’ve been struggling to wrap my head around the architecture of event-driven JavaScript applications. While I do love the idea of an evented system, I am finding it harder to see the benefit of using events for bi-directional communication.
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Distributed DBA: Table movement made easy
(Roger Sanders) With the help of DB2 9.7, learn how to move tables, indexes, long data, and large object (LOB) data from one table space to another using the ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE() procedure.
Sharding
SSWUG TV With Stephen Wynkoop What, Big Data? Check out the insights from MVP Stephen Wynkoop on Big Data. Watch the Show Sharding Relational Database Architects have utilized the concepts of Sharding for years. Sharding is a popular term which is used to take an object, and break it down into it’s component properties. For example, SQL Server uses a […]
SQL Server Install Without OS Page File
SQL Server Install Without OS Page File What is the impact, advantage or disadvantage when installing SQL Server on a windows machine that does not have a swap file for virtual memory? When optimizing a SQL Server, one of the things you audit is the weight of paging, swapping memory to disk to make room for other work, to determine […]
Working with the XML Parser API — JSR 172
(Vikram Goyal) JSR 172 has been around for a while. In fact, it is now included as a backwards-compatible subset in JSR 280, which is an all-encompassing XML processing API for Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) devices. When initially created, this API was not called the XML Parser API, but rat
What are Some Advanced Ways to Use XML
(Darla Ferrara) XML is an effective transport mechanism for data. This fact has not been ignored by companies who create the advanced technologies found in the modern-day world of Internet design. Review some of the articles that highlight how the movers and shakers on the Internet make use of XML.
Dealing with Assertion failure in log/log0recv.c – !page || (ibool)!!page_is_comp(page) == dict_table_is_comp(index->table)
(Chris Calender) This is a somewhat uncommon error, so I wanted to take a moment and post the error and an explanation in order to make it easier for those who run into this in the future.
Monitoring: Three new for three old monitoring functions
(Henrik Loeser) I was reading over the list of new, deprecated and discontinued functionality after DB2 9.7 Fixpack 5 has been made available.
IBM Introduces IDAA to Speed Analytics
(Troy Coleman) Not that long ago, running a large report typically took a few hours, and that was fine. But given the critical role that business intelligence now plays in making business decisions, time is a luxury.
Upgrading Oracle BI 11g Apps
(Christian Screen) When seeking to upgrade one must assess first the current version of applications that they are on. There is an immediate path for Siebel Analyics 7.5.x (specifically 7.5.3), Siebel Business Analytics 7.7.x and 7.8.x, Siebel Life Sciences 7.8.x and of course OBIA 7.9.x.