(André Araujo) Yesterday I was discussing with a fellow DBA about ways to check the status of existing and/or past RMAN jobs. Good backup scripts usually write their output to some sort of log file so, checking the output is usually a straight-forward task.
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Why Semantic Web Technologies: Are We Asking the Wrong Question?
(Lee Feigenbaum) I haven’t written much lately. I’ve been busy building things. And while I’ve been building things, I’ve been learning things. I’d like to start writing and start sharing some of the things I’ve been learning.
Enterprise architect tool belt: TOGAF 9, UML, BPMN and others help
(Jack Vaughan) Designing an enterprise’s SOA to work with other corporate initiatives has been cited as a very significant challenge facing SOA projects. Besides Web services, one must cope with business services. Besides business services, one must cope with business processes. Beyond that there ar
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 not earth-shaking, but useful
(Serdar Yegulalp) Aside from the usual round of bug fixes, a few new features have snuck in under the wire with SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
An Important DB2 10 for z/OS Stored Procedures Enhancement
(Robert Catterall) I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: DB2 10 for z/OS is packed with new functionality. Along with the really high-profile features of the latest release of DB2 for the mainframe platform (temporal data support, enhanced CPU efficiency, row and column access control, etc.),
What I Learned This Month: More zIIPage May Not Be Better
(Scott Chapman) Actually, I didn’t just learn this lesson this month, but had held off writing about it on the theory that many people understood the situation and that IBM would soon produce a satisfactory solution.
General Formatter for .NET 1/4: Introduction
(Zoran Horvat) In this article we will deal with the problem of formatting. We will address the question how to build a string which represents object of unknown structure and contents. This question is opposed to typical situation in which programmer formats the string which represents object of kn
A BLOB on a DataGridView column (with Command Button column, XML, and layering)
(Ger Hayden) This is a working example of a BLOB column on a DataGridView for a Windows Form using C++/CLI where data is drawn from an XML document.
Tune DB2 for high performance: A case study
(Bin Qiao) Statistics show that database tuning can yield a 20% performance improvement over a system that has never been tuned. However, tuning a production system can be risky if not performed properly.
Error running the SQL Server Database Tuning Advisor for non SA users
(Manvendra Singh) A user with db_owner access was trying to run the Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) on a newly built SQL Server, unfortunately he was getting this error message: “Failed to open a new connection. In order to start tuning application needs to create some objects in MSDB database. You h