(Kevin Erickson and Richard P. King) The most significant new feature of Version 2.0 of the IBM InfoSphere Streams product is the programming language model transformation from Stream Processing Application Declarative Engine (SPADE) to Stream Processing Language (SPL).
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Creating a Reporting Services Histogram Chart for Statistical Distribution Analysis
(Siddharth Mehta) Typically transactional data is quite detailed and analyzing an entire dataset on a graph is not feasible. Generally such data is analyzed using some form of aggregation or frequency distribution.
Composition and Inheritance Wrap up
Composition and Inheritance Wrap up I have been very pleased with the response to the topic of when to use Composition and when to use Inheritance. The responses demonstrate that SSWUG is valued by an audience much broader than just database professionals. Ian shares some thoughts that wrap up this topic very nicely. Your example of a Car inheriting from […]
Composition or Inheritance Followup
Composition or Inheritance Followup Some of the responses from the editorial yesterday really help clarify the question of when to use Composition or Inheritance. Here are a few of the responses I received yesterday. Ed: I found your brief discussion of inheritance vs composition really interesting, but I think it missed two key questions that should govern the decision. 1) […]
DB2 for z/OS and REBIND
(Jim Kurtz) A key feature of DB2 10 for z/OS yields “out-of-the-box,” DB2 CPU savings of up to 10 percent for traditional workloads when compared to running the same workloads on DB2 9. That’s attention-getting, and possible without a REBIND.
TechTip: Parse XML Data Using jQuery, Part 1
(Jan Jorgensen) Every day, the expectations of our skills are challenged. It is not enough to know RPG, DDS, and CL. Nowadays, we must also know something about PHP (or likewise), HMTL, JavaScript, and XML if we want to cope.
XPointer
XPointer or XML Pointer Language is a query language developed by the World Wide Web Consortium to address parts of an XML document.
Add structure and semantics to content with XSLT 2.0
(Priscilla Walmsley) When you convert existing content to e-book formats, to DITA, or to other structured standards, you often infer and add structure to your documents. The advanced regular expression and grouping capabilities of XSLT 2.0 make it an excellent language for converting and enhancing c
Will IBM Lead in the Big Data market?
(Leon Katsnelson) There is an interesting discussion unfolding in the LinkedIn Hadoop Users group. Kevin Haynes from Greenplum started off with a question that generated a good spirited discussion. I tried to put a comment in but since I am never short for words I exceeded the maximum comment length
Understanding Sequence Object in SQL Server Denali
(Arshad Ali) Until SQL Server 2008 R2, the Identity column was used to generate sequential numbers to identify records in a table, mostly used as a primary/foreign key. The scope of the identity column is the table on which it has been created, and the next sequential number is created when the DML