(Vijay Bommireddipalli, Matthias Nicola and Tom Tortolani) The emergence of XML-based industry standards (FIXML, FPML, ACORD, XBRL, and so on) has resulted in large volumes of transactional data in XML format. This data contains rich information about the characteristics and performance of the under
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Benchmarking DB2 on Linux
(Rob Williams) I received an email last night from someone who was trying to performance tune a Linux DB2 installation. He was concerned about receiving a large variance in his results, even though he was stopping and starting DB2 between runs.
Simple SVG chart generation with XSLT
(Florent Georges) This week, for my job, I have to create a report generator for a financial company. The reports must be in PDF, so I naturally decided to use XSL-FO. Among other things, the reports contain graphical charts with, you know, financial stuff. The client wants its developers to be able
Parsing xml in Flex – The case of tag names with a dash
(Cesare Rocchi) I am a fan of json. I use it extensively but sometimes I am forced to use xml. A pretty well know way to parse xml in Flex and Adobe air is the following: var xml:XML = new XML(“content”);
So When Does An Oracle B-Tree Index Increase In Height ? (Almost Grown)
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Data binding with Castor, Part 4: Bind your Java objects to SQL databases
(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) You’ve already seen how flexible Castor is in allowing you to convert Java objects to XML and back. But Castor does a lot more, including letting you take those same Java objects and turn them into rows within your SQL database. Learn what syntax is the same, what’s differ
WPF Meets the iPhone
(Kevin McNeish) The iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear on any consumer electronic device, with many innovations that make it a pleasure to use. This article demonstrates how you can implement these features in your .NET applications in a step-by-step format a
Understanding DB2: Learning Visually with Examples
(Raul F. Chong, Xiaomei Wang, Michael Dang and Dwaine R. Snow) Since the 1970s, when IBM Research invented the Relational Model and the Structured Query Language (SQL), IBM has developed a complete family of data servers. Development started on mainframe platforms such as Virtual Machine (VM), Virtu