(Scott Hayes) Another DB2 magazine blog reader, Geoff, read the recent post “DB2 LUW Performance: Asked and Answered (BPLRTX)” and inquired about the optimum setting for NUMBLOCKPAGES. Let’s take a closer look…
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500,000 Non-SSWUG Readers Have Their Databases Exposed
Check Out the SSWUG Virtual Conference – Any other conferences you know cover the basics to get you really productive, don’t require any travel AND offer a 100% guarantee? Didn’t think so. Get more information here. Now on SSWUGtv: Watch: Handling a DBA interview. A Mock interview with questions, answers and more. Watch: SelectViews: Interview with Kim Tripp and Paul […]
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New SQLonCall Show Posted Mock Interview, Part I. Go through the interview process, questions, answers and interpreting the responses. Find out how you can approach the interview, from both the interviewer and interviewee standpoint. > Watch The Show Here Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 Merge Replication (Part 3) In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can […]
Yet Another ASP.NET Combobox – Part 1
(coderchen) This article demonstrates how to implement a ASP.NET ComboBox control, similar to the Windows ComboBox, from scratch. Majority of programming logics actually residents on the client side since the Javascript does most of the data manipulation. This control was built using the Javascript,
Plan your Recovery Strategy with Database Rebuild
(Radhesh Kumar) With the increasing demand of storing more and more data, the size of databases are growing very fast. RDBMS technologies are evolving around supporting the bigger databases and providing faster access to data. IBM with its DB2 UDB has been a key player on such technological developm
Developing AutoComplete Textbox using ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, Web Service and JavaScript
(Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das)) Invoking a web service method from JavaScript code (client side) is the essence of this article. Due to the introduction of AJAX 1.0 extension for ASP.NET 2.0 invoking a web service method from client side can be implemented with less lines of code. We can perform a vari
New Age Data Warehousing
(Rick Sherman) Data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) have been evolving and getting more sophisticated over the years. As IT folks, consultants and analysts gain more experience, they often share those experiences when they work at other companies, publish articles or conduct training
Hybrid Parser Architectural Pattern
(Jürgen Salecker) The Hybrid Parser architectural pattern applies to software systems which need to parse documents but are constrained by memory resources and processing power available. The pattern combines the processing advantages concerning execution speed and memory resources of event driven p
DB2 9 Skipped Locked Data Transactions
(Troy Coleman) I remember when using isolation level UR in online CICS transactions seemed crazy. It turns out using it does make sense sometimes. I’m sure the same can be said about the new SKIP LOCKED DATA select feature. The good news that is this feature is safer than the with UR option in onlin
Advanced Active Record Validations with Rails
(Jason Gilmore) In the first installment of this two-part series, you examined the data validation features available within the Rails framework’s Active Record implementation. Among other tasks, you learned how to use built-in methods such as validates_presence_of() and validates_length_of() to pla