SelectViews – Updated Show Link (Sorry about the issue with the show link on Friday) – The show has been updated and you can check it out now. The show asks for additional feedback on SharePoint (and explains a bit more about what we’re considering) – so we need your feedback. Also, information about what SSDS actually is, and is […]
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WebSphere Application Server for i5/OS Handbook: Version 6.1
(Aleksandr V. Nartovich, Juan Manuel Alcudia, Norman Bels, Michael Fiebig, Rafal Jablonski, Heather R. Jones and Adam Smye-Rumsby) The number of System i customers running one or more Web applications is growing quickly. By integrating WebSphere Application Server – Express to i5/OS, IBM opens a doo
XML on a Chip
(Jimmy Zhang) As the lingua franca of the Internet, XML has become an indispensable part of IT infrastructure. As more web services applications start to exchange XML messages over the network, we begin to see the emergence of the new generation of “XML-aware” network routers and switches. However,
Hangs and how to solve them – part 1 – Deadlocks
(Tom) We have talked about high memory quite a bit so thought it would be a good idea to move onto hangs. So first some background on what you may see: –Slow performance –Web pages timing out –Event logs mentioning deadlocks –Event logs mentioning not responding to a ping
Simulating procedural logic
(pabloj) Sometimes I see people having great difficulties in describing how to fetch data for a report.
The latency of a transactional replication is high in SQL Server 2005 when the value of the ‘Initial Size’ property and the value of the Autogrowth property are small
Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft SQL Server 2005, you create a transactional replication. For the transaction log file of the publication database, the value of the Initial Size property and the value of the Autogrowth property are small. In this scenario, the latency of the transaction
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Varying Columns Dynamically using Session Variables
(Venkatakrishnan J) If you had gone through my blog entry here, you would have known how to go about dynamically varying the columns using presentation variables and dashboard prompts. But say you have a scenario wherein you are integrating BI EE into an external application using GO URL, then the a
Using the NetBeans IDE for RESTful Web Services
(William Brogden) The integrated development environment landscape is dominated by two open source offerings, NetBeans and Eclipse. Today we will look at how one of them, NetBeans, is offering support for RESTful Web services. (R)
V6R1 Breathes New Life into DB2 for i5/OS .NET Provider
(Jarek Miszczyk) Over the last couple of years, I wrote several articles and white papers that dealt with Microsoft .NET Framework integration with DB2 for i5/OS. Judging from the readers’ interest and feedback, this topic is very popular, especially among those System i users who rely on Microsoft
Hands-on Oracle: Backup & Recovery Games
(Steve Callan) Games in Oracle? No, the games reference here is like the “games” in Olympic Games. The athletes competing in games at that level are serious about what they do, and you can pretty much bet the farm they are passionate about their sport or event as well. As an Oracle DBA, how serious