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How do you make a catalog table space larger?
(Willie Favero) Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it!!! Actual DB2 content in a DB2 blog (Skip the excessive rhetoric). Will wonders ever cease? Yes, it has been a dry week or so and I apologize for not having any technical details for a while. Redbooks, white papers, articles, article editing, preparing
TechTip: SQLCOD End-of-File Gotcha
(Sam Lennon) More developers are using embedded SQL in their applications, and some treat the SQLCOD return value as a two-valued field, just like the on/off end-of-file indicator in native file access. In this article, I want to show you that treating SQLCOD like an on/off indicator can be dangerou
Using Ajax for Web Application Development: What Businesses Need to Know
(Francis Wong) Lately, you may have been hearing more and more about Ajax and begun to wonder how it could be beneficial to your business’s web application development projects. First, it is important to start with an understanding of this type of web programming. While the concept is not new – it h
System Administration Certification exam 918 for IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11 prep, Part 7: Informix Dynamic Server replication
(Ronald C. Privett) Configure and manage all forms of replication options available with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11. The seventh in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918. (R)
Tip: Make your life easier with the XML Schema Standard Type Library
(Nicholas Chase) XML validation enables you to create complex rules that define acceptable data. But they’re no good to anybody unless you use them. In this tip, you learn to use the XML Schema Standard Type Library to simplify the process of requiring formatted data such as e-mail addresses and tel
Introduction to VoiceXML Part 2: Working with Forms
(Frank Coyle) The previous article in this series on VoiceXML introduced menus and forms, the two kinds of dialog elements used in building voice applications. Menus are handy when we have a set of predefined options to present to our users. Forms are more flexible, enabling us to collect multiple i
Avoiding TOO_MANY_ROWS errors in PL/SQL
(Bob Watkins) Oracle’s PL/SQL language has two basic mechanisms for getting data from the database: SELECT and cursors. SELECT is designed to return a single row into local variables; cursors give you the ability to select multiple rows (i.e., a “rowset”) and process them one at a time.
Little Boxes : WPF’s UniformGrid
(Ged Mead) “Little boxes, little boxes – there’s green ones and there’s blue ones, pink ones and yellow ones – and they’re all made out of ticky-tacky…” as the song goes. One way of creating a box-like display is to use WPF’s UniformGrid and, if you could bear to look at it, you could indeed use a
Visual Studio How-to: LINQ
(Jeff Cogswell) You’ve probably heard of LINQ. But what is it? LINQ is a new technology that’s integrated into the newest versions of C# and VB.NET dealing with organizing your data structures in a manner similar to the way databases organize data. If you’ve worked with SQL, for example, and you hav