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Recollection: A Linked Data Platform of Digital Collections: Part 1
(Kathy MacDougall and Trevor Owens) What if you were given a large new initiative to lead? Your resources are a team of 180 different groups distributed across the country. They work for different organizations, each with their own set of priorities and goals. Each group does things just a little di
ExtraHop Adds DB2 to Database Performance-Tracking Repertoire
(Alex Woodie) The capability to track the performance of a database in real time can be a critical success factor, particularly for enterprise applications and large e-commerce websites. One company that’s carving itself a niche in this department, ExtraHop Networks, recently added support for IBM’s
Reasons to use AUTO_INCREMENT columns on InnoDB
(Shlomi Noach) An InnoDB table must have a primary key (one is created if you don’t do it yourself). You may have a natural key at hand. Stop! Allow me to suggest an AUTO_INCREMENT may be better.
LOBREAD SQL Trace entry in Oracle 11.2 (and tracing OPI calls with event 10051)
(Tanel Poder) A few days ago I looked into a SQL Tracefile of some LOB access code and saw a LOBREAD entry there. This is a really welcome improvement (or should I say, bugfix of a lacking feature) for understanding resource consumption by LOB access OPI calls.
Parallel Processing in Visual Studio 2010
(Karthikeyan Anbarasan) The .Net Framework 4.0 introduces a new programming architecture for doing multiple processes asynchronously that greatly simplifies the application load and gets better performance.
Step By Step Log-Shipping Configuration for SQL Server
(Jugal Shah) Setting up Log Shipping for SQL Server is not that difficult, but having a step by step process is helpful if this is the first time you have setup Log Shipping. In this tip we walk through the steps to setup Log Shipping.
Debugging WPF and Silverlight Binding Errors In Visual Studio
Recently I was working with a Microsoft Silverlight project, debugging a XAML binding error. After a few hours of searching, I found a blog describing how to alter the WPF Trace Settings to enable a more verbose output while debugging.
JAXB, Web Services, and Binary Data
(Blaise Doughan) When an instance of a class is used with a Web Service, the JAX-WS implementation can choose to handle fields/properties that hold binary data as SOAP attachment.
State of DB2 in the Cloud, March 2011
(Leons Petrazickis) Unlike many of its competitors, DB2 is fully supported in virtualized environments. Since every cloud is built upon virtualization, this means that DB2 is automatically supported when running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM Development & Test Cloud, even in unofficial images