(Drew Block) When working with BizTalk, one of the most straightforward tasks can be creating the data transformation using the BizTalk Mapper. But what about those times when your needs simply don’t fit within the boundaries of the Mapper?
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DB2 9 DBA Certification Study Questions: DB2 configuration and stored procedure calling privileges
(Roger Sanders) Here are more questions from the book DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration: Certification Study Guide, published by MC Press, to help you prepare for the certification test. The questions are reprinted with permission. Check back each week for more, and try past
Migrating MySQL to Oracle Part I
(Sean Hull) As you might imagine, migrating a database and its attendant applications is no small affair. Throw into the mix a switch of database platform, and you certainly have your hands full. In this two part article, we’ll be discussing all of the steps involved in this process, questions to
WPF DockPanel.Dock Problem
(Ged Mead) If you regularly read my blog you’ll know that I like to flag up those silly little Gotchas that are minor in themselves, but massively frustrating when you come upon them and can’t see the cause or the way through. I was working on a project last night and got stuck on something that ha
Reporting Services – Creating a Maintenance Report
(Buck Woody) As database administrators or developers, we sometimes get so busy with what we have to get done that we don’t have time to become familiar with all of the features and functions within the packages we work on. In many shops, I’ve seen DBAs and developers quickly learn a feature to impl
Oracle BI Publisher 10.1.3.3.1 – Creating Applications using JDeveloper 11g and Web Service SOAP APIs
(Venkatakrishnan J) I had some time today to see how easy it is to create a sample application that would basically call a BI Publisher web service and then run a report. Well if you had seen my previous blog entry on this here, i would have mentioned that i was not able to get the sample code provi
Applying SQL Server Updates? Not So Fast…
SQL on Call Show Available Now The latest SQL on Call show is live now and you can watch it on the site – in today’s show Chris closes out the series of top 10 SQL Server thoughts about 2007. > Watch here Also available: [Watch] SelectViews, the SQL Server Show – Keeping up with technology, Microsoft interviews and more. […]
Y2K38 and DB2, Is Your Application Safe?
(Rob Williams) This Saturday marks 30 years to the “Unix Millennium Bug” where it has been 2^31 seconds since UNIX epoch. This is when the standard signed int overflows its time representation. 0111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1110 changes to 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 which is negati
IBM’s IDS to Support Mac Platform
(Larry Barrett) Maybe it’s just a cat thing. IBM announced its Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) will support the Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, a.k.a. ‘Leopard’ beginning with the mid-year release of the latest version of IDS 11, code-named Cheetah 2.
Using the << and >> XQuery Operators
(Leonard Anghel) When you want to determine the order of articles into an sequence returned by an XQuery query, you can use the > operators: – X > Y: is true if Y is before X;