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DB2 9.5 (a.k.a. Viper 2) General Availability Announced
(Chris Eaton) At the IBM Information On Demand Conference last week in Las Vegas, IBM announced the general availability date for DB2 9.5 (formerly known as Viper 2). On October 31, 2007, DB2 9.5 will be generally available. As with all releases of DB2 for LUW, it will be available on all platforms
Biztalk messaging services, working with messages
(John Charles Olamendy) This article is intended to illustrate the main concepts of messaging and the realization in Biztalk Server 2006 as a Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) platform. Biztalk messaging service is the core major component within the platform because it allows the communication betw
Building a tokenizer for XPath or XQuery
(Micah Dubinko) In researching for an XPath 2.0 implementation, I ran across this curious document from the W3C. Despite being labeled a Working Draft (as opposed to a Note), it appears to be a one-shot document with no future hope for updates or enhancements.
XML 101
(Jennifer Kyrnin) After you finish this course, you will understand the basics of XML, what it is, how it works and how you can use it in your work. With interactive lessons and the option to work with other people in the course, you’ll be able to learn XML the way you want. Go at your own pace, or
.NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio
(Tess Fernandez) Normally I write about issues that only manifest themselves in production environment, issues that you can’t really reproduce in a controlled dev environment every time you perform a certain action. In those cases you need to use tools like windbg to gather dumps and do post-mortem
Which Compression Method to Use
(Jim Mischel) When you make the decision to use compression in your program, the next thing you have to decide is which compression method you’re going to use. This can be a difficult decision that depends on a several factors: cost of the compression package, time to implement, compression ratio, a
Finding and fixing load problems
(Mark Callaghan) How do you tune load problems on MySQL? You might get lucky and see that there are a few long running statements when running SHOW PROCESSLIST. You might be working on a small system where you know all of the people and/or SQL statements. Unfortunately, these approaches don’t work f
Getting Started with Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005
(Wei-Meng Lee) Creating reports is one of the most common things developers are asked to do when building a typical business application. Businesses want to know how well a product has sold, the sales total for the month, the inventory status, etc. All these require specialized tools for easily gene
Deploying ASP.NET Applications
(Satheesh Babu) This article covers how to deploy ASP.NET Application in the production environment. It takes you through some of the concepts like application pool, why we need it and Configuring Application pools. At the end the author discusses some of the common problems that may arise during de