(Willie Favero) Building on the excellent storage usage introduced in DB2 for z/OS Version 8, DB2 9 for z/OS has made more significant storage improvements of its own by moving more of the environmental descriptor manager (EDM) cache areas above the 2 GB bar.
Other News
Save time and code with XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0
(Doug Tidwell) Three interesting new features in XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 are the item data type, the to operator, and the concept of sequences. Build a sample application that uses these features to generate a sophisticated HTML view of an XML document, and with the new features in XSLT 2.0, create s
Application Framework Components: Login/Logout
(Chris Neeman) The first of the Framework components that we are going to be looking at is central authorization. This component contains two classes, the login and logout classes. Not only do these classes log a user in and out, they also record the times and dates that a user logged in and logged
Database Replay
(Arup Nanda) What is your biggest concern when you need to make a change in the database—be it some minor change, such as altering initialization parameters and database attributes, or major but inevitable ones such as applying patchsets? What about for your upgrade to Oracle Database 11g itself?
Oracle 11g: Peeking into Protocol Server functionality – orarep and DBMS_REPORT
(Marco Gralike) It undocumented. At least I couldn’t find references. In the XMLDB Protocol Server there is an extra service called orarep, and of course, everything which is undocumented interests me to pieces.
Conditional Indexes….
(Vivek Sharma) Conditions are mostly applied to a SQL Query to filter set of rows from a rowset. These conditions allow optimizer to make a sensible guess on the Indexes to be used and the execution path to be chosen. But apart from the Queries, these conditions can also be applied to Indexes to opt
Unable to start debugging : strong name validation failed
(Kevin Hoffman) When you go to debug anything that runs underneath IIS7 through Visual Studio 2008, if you’re using Windows Vista, then you have probably run into the error message “Unable to start debugging : strong name validation failed.” This is an extremely annoying message and obviously you ne
Integrate Search Into Your Site With ASP.NET
(Marco Bellinaso) No matter how much content you provide or how good it is, if your customers can’t find what they’re looking for they’ll go elsewhere. It’s no wonder then that there are hundreds of search technology vendors. Which solution should you choose?
Introduction to Voice XML Part 4: Grammars, Scope, and Event Handlers
(Frank Coyle) Welcome back! The previous article in this series looked at how grammars can be used with forms to build simple voice applications. To summarize our explorations so far, you’ve learned the following: –Forms and menus are the basic building blocks of a Voice XML application. –Gra
A Quick Look at Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
(John Peterson) A couple weeks ago, I gave you guys a sneak peek at Windows Server 2008 Beta 3. Well, what good is a brand spanking new server platform without the development tools to properly utilize it? This week I spent some time with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2.