(Tom Huntington) Do you need to extract transaction data to your PC for analysis? Is the amount of data too large for your PC to handle? Do you need to move (pivot) the data in a spreadsheet for ease-of-use? Do you have staff members who need to take the data on the road to critical accounts?
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When can language components be removed and maintain backwards or forwards compatibility?
(Dave Orchard) When can content be removed from a content model? The answer depends what we mean by “remove”. The first aspect is whether the content is completely removed or if the minimum and/or maximum number of occurences of the content is reduced though possibly still allowed. The second aspect
Strategies for parallelized queries across RAC instances (part 2/2)
(Christian Bilien) If you have not done so, it would be beneficial to first go through the first post “Strategies for parallelized queries across RAC instances” to get an understanding of the concepts and challenge. I came up with a description of an asymmetric strategy for the handling of RAC inter
Simplifying RDFa Notation
(Kurt Cagle) Resource Description Framework (RDF) is not the world’s most beloved standard. That it is used most often in fairly obscure applications for handling such fundamental concepts as meaning, topicality, and the definition of objects that sound more like philosophy than computer science cer
Are you getting ready to upgrade to DB2 for z/OS Version 8? Get a new Install Guide!
(Willie Favero) The DB2 for z/OS Version 8 Installation Guide’s (GC18-7418) seventh edition is now available for download from the DB2 V8 library web site as of August 2007. This edition of the Install Guide is just a little more than a month old and should now be the only copy that you all will be
Oracle’s Transportable Automatic Workload Repository
(James Koopmann) We have come a long way from Oracle’s old statspack reports.
Using the SIGNAL Statement for Error Handling
(Guy Harrison and Steven Feuerstein) In this conclusion to a three-part series, you will learn about the SIGNAL statement and its uses for creating your own error statements.
Beginning to Mock with Rhino Mocks and MbUnit – Part 1
(Ben Hall) This is the first in a series of articles covering the Rhino Mocks mock object framework for the .NET platform. The aim of this series is to provide you with an understanding of how mock objects are used, how they can improve the quality of your unit tests and how mock objects can make th
Optimize database configuration and dependencies of Project Zero applications
(Dan Jemiolo) The Project Zero development platform includes a data access library that is easy to use, allowing developers to execute SQL statements from their application code with minimal configuration. In fact, setting up a database and connecting to it requires just a four-line configuration fi
Dimensional modeling with Ranged Dimensions
(Alberto Ferrari) A ranged dimension is a dimension that is used to have a discrete view of a continuous measure.