(Rick Weaver) Customers often need to replicate data from one DB2 z/OS subsystem to another DB2 system or RDBMS. They may want to update a QA environment with a copy of production data, or replicate or propagate data changes to a data warehouse. Because replication frequently is done at an applicati
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Webcast: What is new in Viper 2 for developers?
As a developer it is difficult to stay on top of what is going on in the industry as technology is constantly changing. Learn how Viper 2 brings new productivity capabilities to you as a developer regardless of what programming environment you are in. In this webcast, you’ll get all the details abou
Really Simple RSS (Yeah, I know)
(Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.) There are plenty of articles out there dealing with consuming RSS, but only a few dealing with making your own. Furthermore, every time I use the xsd.exe tool published by Microsoft, I find people who have never heard of it. Despite its limitations, it is a good tool that need
Understandable Code Is Prosperous Code
(Todd Lauinger) Very shortly after completing step 1 of any development project—getting the code working—good software developers will stop to consider the lifespan of the code. They understand that the effort put into the code needs to directly correspond to its anticipated lifespan. Take for examp
Tracking Silverlight-enabled Browsers via Analytics
(Nikhil Kothari) This post describes how you can use Google Analytics to track users browsing and visiting your site with Silverlight-enabled browsers in the interim… until Google updates its engine to natively track Silverlight versions.
Creating a Web service with VB.NET
(Irina Medvinskaya) Web services technology is based on HTTP, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and XML. Since Web services use open standards, calling Web services is fairly simple.
Recommended reading list: DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows application development
(Samuel Poon and Fraser McArthur) Learn about IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows with this reading list, compiled especially for the database developer community. This popular article is updated to cover DB2 9, formerly codenamed “Viper.”
How to check and optimize MySQL tables in parallel
(Xaprb) I wanted to point out something that might not be obvious from the name: MySQL Parallel Dump can be used as a generic wrapper to discover tables and databases, and fork off worker processes to do something to them in parallel. That “something” can easily be invoking mysqlcheck — or any other
Troubleshooting ASM problems on VMware ESX 3.x- Part II
(Tarry Singh) In our last article, we looked at our ASM issue and ran several SQL and OS specific commands to locate the problem. As you may have noticed, it wasn’t rocket science but I must tell you that it wasn’t the first time we digressed from the main issue and got lost, prolonging downtime. We
Write XForms that work across browsers
(Steve K Speicher) XForms is intended to be used embedded within other markup. The most widely used, and the focus of this article, is within XHTML. There is a need to write your XHTML documents following some guidelines to ensure a smooth experience of a variety of browsers like Microsoft’s® Intern