(Conor O’Mahony) The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) and IBM are offering a complimentary workshop for DB2 for z/OS clients who are planning to migrate to DB2 10.
Other News
OBIEE 11g: opmnctl start: failed. Can not resolve for interface any
(oraclenerd) I’ve been working on a proof of concept for OBIEE 11g. Part of that, naturally, includes building out the system.
Pickler Fetch – What is it?
(Martin Widlake) How many of you have seen the step COLLECTION ITERATOR PICKLER FETCH appearing in Explain Plans and wondered “what is a Pickler Fetch”?
VB.NET String Length Example
(Sam Allen) How many characters are contained in your VB.NET String? With the Length property on the String type, you can determine this count very fast. Here, we look an example of Length and also touch on the Length property’s implementation.
How to Control Long SQL Execution Time in ADF BC with VO Timeout
(Andrejus Baranovskis) Who likes, when ADF screen hangs on long running SQL query? I guess no one, so today I will describe how to take control on long running SQL queries and bring ADF screen back to life. ADF BC allows to set VO query execution timeout, we can apply this approach to limit SQL quer
Creating Repeated Sequences With The Modulus (MOD) Operator
(Ben Nadel) This almost doesn’t warrant its own post; but, it seems to be one of those small factoids that I can’t keep in my head without writing it down. And so, a quick post to demonstrate creating repeated sequences with the modulus operator (MOD or %).
Connection Pooling (ADO.NET)
(Mukesh Kumar) Creating a database connection is somewhat time-consuming because it involves the overhead of network-level handshaking and security credentialing for each new connection request. ADO.NET uses a technique called connection pooling, which minimizes the cost of repeatedly opening and cl
Database performance optimization part 1 (Indexing strategies)
(Kanasz Robert) Before a couple of weeks one friend of mine told me, he had a problem with poor database performance. He asked me how to find what cause poor performance and how to fix this problem. I have some knowledge about database tuning and I advised him some recommendations.
Debugging Out of Memory Errors
(Peter Vogel) So you’ve got this long running application that gradually takes over all the memory on the computer that it’s running on. You’ve got a resource leak somewhere; but how do you track it down?
Optim Performance Management Solution
See how the staff at one fictional organization takes advantage of Optim integrated data management solutions for performance management. These solutions help them to work collaboratively and to gain more value from their business-critical applications.