(Scott Hayes) During a recent Webinar, and reiterated by attendees at this weeks IDUG Conference in Athens Greece, we’ve heard that very few organizations are taking advantage of DB2 9 autonomic tuning as implemented by the Self Tuning Memory Manager, or STMM. WHY? Because they don’t trust it.
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One Possible Reason for On-The-Net SQL Servers
Available on SSWUGtv: A wide-ranging interview with Microsoft’s Matt Nunn about Visual Studio 2008, what it does, what he likes about it, and so much more. Also, a bit about update stats, discussion list watch and a whole lot of other great SQL Server information. > Watch the show here Also, don’t miss: Watch: Handling a DBA interview. A Mock […]
Multi-file XSL Transformation Custom Tool for Visual Studio
(Dmitri Nesteruk) This article presents a very simple enhancement of the TransformCodeGenerator tool posted here on CodeProject by Chris Stefano. In order to get the tool to perform well with real-life problems that we face when generating commercial code, the tool has undergone a small redesign to
IBM Previews z/VSE V4.2, Releases DB2 Server V7.5
(Timothy Prickett Morgan) The bits are barely cool on z/VSE V4.1, which started shipping in March after a January launch this year, and IBM is already putting out a technology preview of its VSE V4.2 operating system. In general, technology previews mean Big Blue is getting ready to ship a product i
Data Visualization Using ASP.NET 2.0
Data Visualization is of immense importance these days. In this tutorial we will graphically visualize a data set (iris) uploaded by user. Iris data set can be downloaded as a part of Data Visualization sample project, used in this tutorial.
On efficiently geo-referencing IPs with MaxMind GeoIP and MySQL GIS
(Jeremy Cole) Geo-referencing IPs is, in a nutshell, converting an IP address, perhaps from an incoming web visitor, a log file, a data file, or some other place, into the name of some entity owning that IP address. There are a lot of reasons you may want to geo-reference IP addresses to country, ci
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Metadata Reports
(Venkatakrishnan J) We saw earlier here about how Catalog Reports can be created and used. In the same way we also have an option of creating Metadata Reports. Metadata Reports are those reports that shows how the Presentation Layer is related to the Business Model layer and in turn also shows how B
SQL Server Reporting Services: Getting Started
(Vikas Goyal) The main participants in the SSRS ecosystem are: –End Users: Users who are interested in generated reports –Administrators: Users responsible for maintaining the SSRS services and Report Manager –Designers: Users responsible for designing the reports –Report Manager: Web-b
Microsoft’s Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for December 2007
Thirteen new webcasts are scheduled for December, covering such topics as “New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008”, “Migrating from Access to SQL Server” and more.
Web services: from hype to real-world applications
(Joon du Randt) We’ve all heard the hype around Web services: * “You will never have to maintain an application ever again”; * “Allow your application to work, even if some parts of it are offline”; * “Speak to any other computer system”; * “Keep all your data secure”; and * “Cure dandruff”.