(Dan Wahlin) It’s amazing how much data is accessible through Web services these days. Everything from weather, to stock quotes, to language translations are available for consumption. Take a moment to scan through the services shown on XMethods.com to see the wide variety of services that are out t
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DB2 9 for z/OS Performance Topics
(Paolo Bruni, Kevin Harrison, Garth Oldham, Leif Pedersen and Giuseppe Tino) DB2 9 for z/OS is an exciting new version, with many improvements in performance and very little regression. DB2 V9 improves availability, security and adds greatly to SQL and XML function. Optimization improvements include
Creating Custom Reports for DotNetNuke using Crystal Reports – Part 2
(Eric Landes) In Part 1 of this series, we went over an introduction to DotNetNuke (DNN). We also delved into table structure, then some basic SQL Statements. As mentioned in the first part, many people are using DotNetNuke (DNN) as their option as a CMS application. DNN has grown into one of the mo
Could the need for the QUIESCE utility have finally diminished?
(Willie Favero) I’m not saying there’s no longer a need for QUIESCE. It’s just that its more traditional roll in a recovery scenario may no longer be what it once was!
Oracle 11g – Statisticly speaking!
(Robert G. Freeman) OK, it’s time for another Oracle Database 11g New Feature! Today some new statistics related features.
Blogging about 11g – Part 9 – Password Complexity Checker
(Yuri van Buren) In Oracle 11g you can enable the built-in Password Complexity Checker function.
Caching Data with a Web Service in Enterprise Library
(Alex Homer) Sometimes you find yourself thinking, “I wonder if I can make my application do this…?” The target of your thoughts might not immediately seem to be a useful, or even sensible, feature; but most developers tend to be attracted to unusual problems that offer a challenge.
XMLTABLE by example, Part 1: Retrieving XML data in relational format
(Matthias Nicola and Vitor Rodrigues) DB2 pureXML provides hierarchical storage for XML data and advanced XML query capabilities such as SQL/XML and XQuery. SQL/XML is a standardized extension of the SQL language so that XQuery or XPath can be embedded in SQL. This allows for integrated processing o
Creating an ASP.NET 2.0 Polling User Control: Building the Polling User Control
(Scott Mitchell) Welcome to the second article in a three-part series on building a polling User Control. In the first installment, Design Decisions and the Data Model, we looked at the design decisions made prior to creating the control as well as the poll’s data model, which consisted of three tab
Redundant index is not always bad
(Vadim Tkachenko) About year ago Peter wrote about redundant indexes and mentioned sometimes it is good to leave two indexes, even one is first part of another. I’m speaking about BTREE indexes, for example, KEY (A), and KEY (A,B). From SQL point of view KEY(A) is not needed, as for queries like WHE