(Willie Favero) The three APARS we are focusing on this virtual Friday are all marked as HIPER (High Impact or Pervasive APAR). HIPERs should be given serious consideration and applied in a timely fashion. Only the most critical fixes are marked as HIPER.
Other News
Oracle 11g: Travel back in time with the Database Flashback
(Giri Mandalika) Error recovery, historical reporting, trend analysis, data forensics and fraud detection are just some of the business problems that can be solved by using the Flashback Data Archive feature in Oracle 11g database.
Is anyone actually using this database? – How to tell whether or not you can delete an old database
(Matt Canning) When you log into a database server that has been running for several years, you will often find lots of files from databases that may not have been used for some time.
SQL Server Security: Users and other Principals
(Buck Woody) I’m continuing a discussion of SQL Server Security in this series, where I’ve already described the security in general, and platform Security in specific. In this tutorial I’ll explain User security and in the next tutorial I’ll explain groups of Users (called roles) in SQL Server.
Database Engine Permission Basics
(Don Pinto) I am posting this on behalf of my colleague Rick Byham, a technical writer on the SQL Server Team.
How MySQL does sorting with Order By
(Nilnandan Joshi) There are two filesort algorithms in MySQL for sorting and retriving select queries results.
Creating XML in ColdFusion
(Dave Ferguson) Well.. I ran across this code and wanted to share. I am using it as more of an example of something you probably shouldn’t do.
Adding Common Methods to JAXB-Generated Classes (Separate Class/Groovy Categories)
(Dustin Marx) I have previously discussed using JAXB2 Basic Plugins to add common methods to JAXB-generated Java classes. In this blog post, I look at another approach for performing the same behaviors on JAXB-generated objects as these classes might normally provide for themselves.
XML Schema to Java – Generating XmlAdapters
(Blaise Doughan) In previous posts I have demonstrated how powerful JAXB’s XmlAdapter can be when starting from domain objects. In this example I will demonstrate how to leverage an XmlAdapter when generating an object model from an XML schema.
Deep dive into DB2 LUW Problem Determination and Troubleshooting
(Susan Visser) As mentioned in a previous post, there are several deep technical courses that you can take immediately prior to IBM’s Information on Demand (IOD11) Conference this year. My previous post described the 6 certification crammer courses that are offered. If you aren’t interested in cra