(Jimmy Zhang) This article introduces a new C#-XML data binding technique based entirely on VTD-XML (http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net) and XPath. The new approach differs from traditional C# XML data binding tools in that it doesn’t mandate schema, takes advantage of XML’s inherent loose encoding, and
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No-Charge z10 Roadshow – Seats and Cities still available
(Willie Favero) A few weeks ago I did a couple of post about the new z10 server (latest mainframe) and z/OS preview. Well, if you are lucky enough to live near one of the following 14 cities (Austin TX, Boston MA, Cincinnati OH, Dallas TX, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Milwaukee WI, Montreal OC, Om
TOO_MANY_ROWS side effect
(Jeffrey Kemp) I used to assume that whenever a TOO_MANY_ROWS exception is raised, the target bind variables would be left untouched. Until today I’ve never written any code that relies on the bind variables being in any particular state when a TMR exception is raised, so was surprised.
Use the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool with DB2 Data Warehouse Edition, Part 4: Interactivity in reports and charts
(Vaibhav Srivastava) The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) is an open source, relational reporting solution. It provides an Eclipse-based plug-in for report development and testing, and it provides J2EE deployment and API that can be used in custom Java applications. With IBM DB2 Data
.NET Debugging Demos Lab 6: Debugging Challenge (Memory leak)
(Tess Fernandez) Here is the debugging challenge for lab 6… this one is really tricky… I will post the step-by-step instructions and review in about a week, but for now I will only post a problem description.
Database Appliances Vs Embedded Databases
(Jignesh K. Shah) In my previous post I briefly mentioned Database Appliance with Project Indiana. Now that Sun has acquired MySQL (or as some people say MySQL has acquired Sun) and with our existing work in progress with PostgreSQL, there are quite a bit of options available of using some combinati
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Change Data Capture – Part 4
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) This article illustrates how to generate DML [Data Manipulation language – Insert, Update and Delete] statements from the history table.
Storage Performance for SQL Server
(Joe Chang) There is a perplexing lack of material on overall storage performance strategy for database servers. Too much of the content is narrowly focused on tuning techniques to improve performance over an unknown base. First, storage system IO performance is well understood from the science and
Sorting character strings using SQL Server
(Tim Chapman) You are probably familiar with the built-in sorting abilities of SQL Server for columnar data, but what if you need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields? Even though this may not be a common need for most users, this issue may come up from time to time. I’ll demonstrat
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3.2 – Updating Session Variables through GO URL
(Venkatakrishnan J) Another excellent feature that i had wanted to blog about for sometime was pointed out by Swapan of the BI EE forums today here. If you had gone through my previous blog entry here, i would have shown you how to go about updating the session variables from within Answers. Also, i