(Robert Eisele) Dealing with large data sets makes it necessary to pick out only the newest or the hottest elements and not displaying everything. In order to have older items still available, Pagination navigation’s have become established. However, implementing a Pagination with MySQL is one of th
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Using IBM DB2 pureScale Feature with application cluster transparency in IBM BladeCenter
(Mel Bakhshi and Miso Cilimdzic) This article provides a validated, end-to-end hardware and software reference architecture for running IBM® DB2® pureScale® Feature on IBM BladeCenter. The reference architecture offers four solution templates intended to streamline production implementations.
Performance tips for SSAS
(James Serra) Over the past few years I have developed a list of ways to improve performance in SSAS and in two of the tools that use it: ProClarity and PerformancePoint. Below are those performance tips along with other important items to be aware of:
Jeopardy on SSWUG.org
Jeopardy on SSWUG.org Today’s Jeopardy question pretty clearly demonstrates why it is difficult to create a Computer that can think like the Human Mind. I was amazed by the number of responses regarding yesterdays SSWUG Jeopardy question…and they were all nearly identical. What is dropping/mixing a stack of unnumbered programming cards? In the 60s programmers didn’t have direct access to […]
Implications of IBM Watson
$$SWYNK$$ Featured Article(s) Tips for designing SQL Server 2008 tables (Part 2) In this article, you can find some useful tips to design SQL Server 2008 tables. Featured White Paper(s) Structuring the Unstructured: How to Dimensionalize Semi-Structured Business Data Written by Interactive Edge The Business Intelligence industry … (read more) Implications of IBM Watson If you heard the presentation of […]
LINQ to XML in a Nutshell
(Dhananjay Kumar) Data may exist in much form. You may have data in relational tables residing on a relational database or portable data in form of XML. Since data exist in many forms, obviously there are many ways to manipulate or access them. One of the most popular ways of sharing data is as XML.
Using DML with XML – UPDATE & DELETE
(manub22) In my previous post we saw how we can INSERT records in a XML string. On this post we”ll see the UPDATE & DELETE operations by using same xml.modify() method.
XSLT-Making complex XML transformations easy
Data maps are the most common method used for Transformation but they have limited applications when it comes to complex transformations. Data maps are useful where you have one-to-one mapping between source and target XML tags.
Dynamic Show/Hide in APEX
(Patrick Barel) When you want to hide and display certain regions in an APEX based application based on the selection of the user, for instance when a button or a link is pressed then you can of course use the Region Display Selector, but this takes up a region on your page and is not very customisa
Simple. Reliable. Affordable.
(Fred Sandsmark) Oracle has unveiled Oracle Database Appliance, putting its end-to-end engineered systems within reach of midsize companies and enterprise departments. Oracle Database Appliance is “the simple, reliable, and affordable addition to our engineered systems product family,” said Judson A