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Using Universal Table Space
(Troy Coleman) I’ve been traveling to DB2 regional user groups talking about DB2 partitioning and how you may want to redesign your legacy applications to take advantage of some cool new features in V8 and in V9. In these presentations, I touch on universal table space (UTS).
More sample questions from the DB2 9 Fundamentals Certification Study Guide
(Roger Sanders) Which of the following is a valid wildcard character in a LIKE clause of a SELECT statement?
VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging
(Scott Guthrie) A few weeks ago I blogged about the new JavaScript Intellisense support in VS 2008. One of the other JavaScript features that I’m sure will be popular in VS 2008 is the much-improved support for JavaScript debugging. This is enabled in both the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Exp
FIX: The server stops responding, the performance is slow, and a time-out occurs in SQL Server 2000
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you perform one of the following operations: • You run the following statement. DBCC FREEPROCCACHE • You perform an ALTER DATABASE operation. • You run the sp_configure stored procedure, or you run the sp_detach_db stored procedure. • You restore a database.
Locking with the MethodImpl Attribute
(Jim Mischel) The .NET Framework includes one other convenient locking technique: method-level locking with an attribute. Using this technique, you don’t have to write lock or SyncLock statements or fiddle with Monitor objects. Instead, you just place an attribute above the method.
NXT: SQL Server from an Agnostic’s Perspective
(Justin Whitney) As a developer who codes database-driven apps for a wide variety of clients, my first priority is to find the right database for the job, whether it’s SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, or even Access. As someone who’s partial to open source (and free software), I’ve fallen in love wit
File Upload with VB.NET
(Irina Medvinskaya) It has become a popular feature, often expected by users, to allow uploading documents into server-based applications. This is necessary in many applications, from very simple to more complex. In this article, I will show you a simple way of adding a File Upload feature into your
System Administration Certification exam 918 for IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11 prep, Part 4: Performance tuning
(Edgar Sanchez and Joseph W. Baric, Jr.) Tune IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and its different subsystems for optimum performance. After a brief overview, follow along with examples on how to look at the database server and its subsystems. The fourth in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutor
Open-source Technologies for Oracle DBAs and Developers – Part 2
(Sean Hull) The open-source community around databases, and Oracle specifically, has literally exploded in the last couple of years. The final installment of this two -part article covers open-source administration, security, benchmarking and monitoring tools.