(Stefan Kaltenbrunner) With 8.3 just around the corner more and more people are actually starting to test 8.3 with their code base and wondering if it will be worth to switch/upgrade and so did I.
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The Structure of an XML Node
As seen in the previous lessons, XML is used to describe data using objects called nodes that are arranged as an upside-down tree with a root element, optional branches, and optional leaves.
Resuscitate Your .NET Programs with the Application Recovery and Restart API
(Seth Livingston) icrosoft has gone to great lengths to help you make your software applications more appealing to users. You can create rich user experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation, smooth web applications with ASP.NET AJAX, data friendly applications with LINQ, and much more. But whe
DB2 Partitioning
(Radhesh Kumar) Divide and conquer- that’s the mantra used to deal with large volume of data in data warehouses. What are the features available in DB2 to divide or partition the data? DB2 provides following three features to partition your data. –Data Partitioning Feature (DPF) –Multi-Dimensi
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Level Based Measures (LBMs)
(Venkatakrishnan J) Now that i am back from quite a good weekend, i thought i would blog about something which is pretty interesting i.e. Level based Measures. Lets try to understand this first. This is what the documentation has got to say about this “A level-based measure is a column whose values
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: Thinking in Sets
(John L. Viescas and Michael J. Hernandez) By now, you know how to create a set of information by asking for specific columns or expressions on columns (SELECT), how to sort the rows (ORDER BY), and how to restrict the rows returned (WHERE). Up to this point, we’ve been focusing on basic exercises i
MySQL Failover Strategy using State Management, introducing MPP – Part 3
(Russell E Glaue) In part 2 we discussed the internals of MPP and how MPP can be used with LVS to create a failover strategy. In this part 3 we will discuss how to configure and operate MPP, and additionally use MPP with MySQL Proxy to create a failover strategy.
Recursive XSLT For Nested XML Nodes In ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) Earlier today, Jacob Munson brought up the task of outputting an XML menu (as HTML) without knowing ahead of time how deeply nested the menus and sub menus might be. As I have been doing a lot with both recursion and XSLT (XML transformations) in ColdFusion lately, it was the first thing
Looping Statements in VBScript
(Nilpo) As you begin to create more complex scripts with VBScript you will develop the need to repeat sections of your code in order to repeat some actions. Looping statements provide a device for repeating code segments.
Most Consumable DB2 9 Improvements Require Minor Work
(Troy Coleman) Last week I listed some new DB2 9 features that can help you while requiring essentially no effort on your part. These benefits are in utility CPU reduction, logging, larger prefetch sizes, LOB performance and DDF virtual storage constraint relief.