(Amir Bar-Or and Shruti Choudhary) Learn how to use the XML stage in IBM InfoSphere DataStage 8.5. This article provides step-by-step instructions for importing XML schemas into the Schema Library Manager, parsing XML files, composing XML documents, and writing them into DB2 pureXML.
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Color Indicator for Code Changes – Track Changes in Visual Studio 2010
(Abhijit Jana) “Track Change” one of the best interesting features in visual studio which indicates the code changes with a color indicator at the beginning of the line.
Google Docs and Xpath Data Functions
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to use Xpath data functions (such as ImportXML) to retrieve information from Google Docs and other outside sources.
Anatomy of a .NET Assembly – CLR metadata 1
(Simon Cooper) Before we look at the bytes comprising the CLR-specific data inside an assembly, we first need to understand the logical format of the metadata (For this post I only be looking at simple pure-IL assemblies; mixed-mode assemblies & other things complicates things quite a bit).
Oracle Database Time Model Viewer in Excel 5
(Charles Hooper) In the previous articles in this series we looked at ways to analyze the Oracle time model data at the system-wide level with drill-down into the session level detail, with cross references to a handful of statistics found in V$OSSTAT and V$SYSSTAT, and the system-wide wait events w
WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance – A Vending Machine for IT
(Leon Katsnelson) There is no doubt that cloud computing has put a lot of pressure on IT organizations to find a way to reduce costs and, more important, bring agility to business processes. Line of business users are increasingly bringing expectations from their consumer experiences to the front do
Exadata CAN do smart scans on bitmap indexes
(Tanel Poder) As I’m finishing up a performance chapter for the Exadata book (a lot of work!), I thought to take a quick break and write a blog entry.
Runtime error ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
(Rob van Wijk) After a new version of software was installed in production, the end users reported a runtime error: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges, when selecting from a view.
Understanding The Basic Authentication Request-Response Life Cycle
(Ben Nadel) For the last couple of days, I have been very frustrated with trying to get Basic Authentication to work with a piece of code being integrated with Twilio. I have used Basic Authentication a few times before; but, I guess I never really understood exactly what was required during the req
Geek City: What gets logged for SELECT INTO operations?
(Kalen Delaney) Last week, I wrote about logging for index rebuild operations. I wanted to publish the result of that testing as soon as I could, because that dealt with a specific question I was trying to answer. However, I actually started out my testing by looking at the logging that was done fo