(Laura) We’ve been huge fans of DB2 pureScale ever since it was first announced back in October 2009 and we’ve done a lot of reasearch and work on our own DB2 pureScale installation.
Other News
MySQL HA Agent Mini HowTo
(Gerry Narvaja) While testing Yoshinori Matsunobo’s MHA agent I found that although the wiki has a very complete documentation, it was missing a some details.
SQL Server 2008 – TSQL Debugger for Stored Procedure
(Paresh Prajapati) When we run in the issue of something wrong or incorrect with stored procedure and suppose the stored procedure has 1000 lines long and very complex code for custom logic inside it, what you do?
Manage Pages Across the Web Site from One Location
(Peter Vogel) Sometimes there is some processing that needs to be added to every page on the site. For instance, I had a client who wanted to add code to every WebForm’s PreInit event to set Page’s Theme property dynamically. Changing every PreInit event in every page sounded like the definition of
What’s new in Informix MACH 11 high-availability features for secondary servers
(Harshavardhan Changappa and Bharath Sriram) IBM Informix V11.50.xC6 brought several enhancements for Informix multi-node active clusters for high availability, called MACH 11. In this article, get an overview of some of the new features, such as the ability to stop or suspend replication in the Inf
Unit Test Methodologies
Unit Test Methodologies In the last couple of newsletters I have been talking about Unit Testing. Unit Testing is a technique used by software develoeprs to test the code they are writing to solve a software requirement. The tests are written to exercise the code modules directly, not through an external interface. Today I wanted to gloss over three general […]
Why Unit Test?
$$SWYNK$$ Why Unit Test? Unit testing is tests written by developers, not QA. The purpose of unit testing is to confirm that the code works, and fulfills the business rules. In an Agile Software Development Lifecycle, unit tests also function as requiurements documentation.. Unit tests also document how to use the code. If you need to know how a certain […]
Data Import Handler – import from Solr XML files
So far, in previous articles, we looked at the import data from SQL databases. Today it’s time to import from XML files.
Creating Optimizer Trace Files
(Greg Rahn) Many Oracle DBA’s are probably familiar with what Optimizer trace files are and likely know how to create them. When I say “Optimizer trace” more than likely you think of event 10053, right? SQL code like this probably is familiar then:
An addendum to an earlier data sharing post
(Willie Favero) Way back in April I did a short write-up on a DSNZPARM introduced in DB2 10 that allow for the cleanup of the data sharing structures in the coupling facility to avoid accessing corrupted information when start a data sharing group after a failure.