(Bonnie Baker) Long ago, I wrote a three-part column to explain the program preparation process on the DB2 for z/OS platform. I received more e-mail referencing that column than all of my other columns put together.
Other News
Centralized Data in Parallel
Centralized Data in Parallel I was reading Kevin Kline’s article “CPU in Flux” in the September 2011 edition of “Database Trends and Applications. Kevin touched on a topic I have had on my backburner for some time now, Multiple CPU systems. The main thrust of his article is that CPU manufacturers have changed course in order to get more power […]
Centralized Data
Centralized Data Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence systems have become key assets for company success. More focus is being placed on centralizing data from different data sources providing a centralized view of customer information. Less emphasis is being placed on designing new sources of data. If you are not convinced of this shift in technology, simply look at job postings […]
Understanding Obsolescence of RMAN Backups
(Hemant K Chitale) Questions about the the LIST OBSOLETE command keep appearing in RMAN forums.
Easily navigate XML with VB.NET and XPath
(Tony Patton) XPath is firmly rooted as the standard for navigating or locating data within XML documents. Microsoft has embraced XML within the .NET platform, and the soon to-be-released Microsoft Office 2003 includes XPath support. The .NET XPathNavigator class provides a way to utilize XPath with
Designing the Transcendent Web: The Power of Web 3.0
The advent of Web 2.0 allowed users to go beyond the passive consumption of Web content, enabling them to participate fully in the actual generation of content on any number of new media. This shift has been a huge boon to businesses, allowing them to mine rich veins of data about the online behavio
Reading Text Files
A very common need when programming almost any application is the ability to read data from a text file. Fortunately VB.NET excels at this sort of thing. In the tutorial that follows we will show exactly how you can read through a text file, parse the information, and use it in your Visual Basic app
Introduction to: SPARQL
(Juan Sequeda) SPARQL is the standardized query language for RDF, the same way SQL is the standardized query language for relational databases. If this is the first time you look at SPARQL, but you’re familiar with SQL, you will see some similarities because it shares several keywords such as SELECT
POST Streaming Upload Data From ColdFusion Using Java And Node.js
(Ben Nadel) I can’t find the email, but a while back, someone asked me about POSTing very large files with ColdFusion’s CFHTTP and CFHTTPParam tags. This individual was running out of memory because ColdFusion apparently needed to load the entire file into the local RAM before posting it up to the t
Using the EJB adapter in SOA Suite 11g
(Edwin Biemond) In Oracle SOA Suite 11g you can use the EJB adapter to expose a Remote interface as a Service or use it in a Reference Service. From PS2 you only need to have an interface jar for the EJB adapter.