(Denny Lee) DRILLTHROUGH MDX is a very powerful way to drillthrough to your original data source of detail data that make up the aggregations that you are looking at. For more information on enabling drillthrough, please refer to T.K. Anand’s great article on Enabling Drillthrough in Analysis Servic
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DB2 Viper 2 Open Beta has begun
(Chris Eaton) On Friday, June 15, IBM announced the Open Beta program for DB2 Viper 2 (the next release of DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, Windows). If you are a consultant, here is your chance to get a jump start on the next release of DB2. If you are a client, try out many of the new features to see […]
DB2 application development: Problem determination tools in Developer Workbench
(Marichu Scanlon) Developer Workbench (DWB) is an Eclipse-based IDE client tool for developing DB2 business objects. In this article, find various problem determination tips, including tracing and logging in Developer Workbench. Learn about the various traces and logs generated in DWB, the steps nec
MySQL on Windows? Absolutely!
(Robin Schumacher) The admission I’m about to make will likely cause me to lose some friends/colleagues in the open source world, but I have to be honest: I like using Microsoft Windows. Except for Windows 3.0-3.1, I always have. Further, I personally much prefer managing databases on Windows than U
Inside IBM’s FileNet Acquisition
(Michael S. Dougherty) Late last year, IBM completed its acquisition of FileNet Corp., putting a decisive end to the relative lull in enterprise content management (ECM) mergers and acquisitions. Other recent acquisitions in the ECM market include Oracle’s acquisition of Stellent and OpenText’s acqu
VB 2005: The ‘Missing’ Sub Main Problem
(Ged Mead) As I’ve said on many occasions in the past, it’s those sometimes tiny little Gotchas that will cause you the greatest amount of aggravation. Here’s one that I’ve been meaning to blog for a while now. It’s a question/problem that comes up fairly often and it usually goes something like thi
Create Client Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions
(Bilal Haidar) In the last few articles we have been discussing the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0. Among the new features is creating client controls that you can instantiate on the client side, add it to the page content, and fire and handle events defined on these client controls.
REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE=EXCLUSIVE in Oracle 10g
(Alex Gorbachev) I’ve never really liked the idea of REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE=SHARED, probably just because I haven’t seen much use for it. As a result, I’ve never paid any attention to it.
A new addition to IDUG’s Podcast series
(Willie Favero) Just when you thought the only thing anyone would ever talk about again was DB2 9 for z/OS stuff, a little something about DB2 for z/OS Version 8 pops up. IDUG has invited me to do a couple of podcasts about DB2 Version 8 starting with a two part series on upgrading to Version 8. Pa
Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services
(Denny Lee and Nicholas Dritsas) This white paper describes how to set up a load-balanced scalable querying environment for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services so that you can handle a large number of concurrent queries to your Analysis Services servers. Load-balanced querying ensures that r