(Alex Gorbachev) While I was at that fine conference in Scotland, one of our clients did some maintenance on their Windows server where several databases were running. We had just begun supporting this machine, and hadn’t had a chance to test a reboot. And for some reason, backup/recovery wasn’t — u
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DB2 XML: Enabling the Right Tradeoff
(Anant Jhingran) In 2001, I had been at the Almaden labs as the head of computer science for a few months. Almaden database folks — Hamid Pirahesh, Eugene Shekita, Bruce Lindsay, and a countless number of others — had started looking into what it means to do XML inside the database. New innovati
Integrating Oracle Forms into Oracle ADF Faces
(Wilfred van der Deijl) Oracle Forms has been Web-enabled for years. It is perfectly possible to run Oracle Forms in a Web browser, and in its 2005 Statement of Direction, Oracle indicated that it remains committed to the development and support of Oracle Forms.
DB2 v9 and SAP enhancements and how they complement each other on System z
(Lydia Parziale, Hyun Baek, Javier Chavez, Vince Crose, Giovanni Grita, Theodor Kuebler, Georg Mayer, Heinz Ruflair, Mary Siart and Johannes Schuetzner) This book presents the SAP features for DB2 for z/OS V9 and for DB2 Connect V9.1. It demonstrates the best ways to exploit these new features to ac
Explore Oracle 10g’s updated sample schemas
(Bob Watkins) Each new release of Oracle database brings with it new features to explore. It can be a challenge to create adequate sample tables to play with a given feature. But since Oracle 9i, Oracle has had a robust set of sample schemas you can use to learn new features. The Oracle Documentatio
What’s new in IDS 11?
(Mohankumar S P, Priyambada Behera, Radhika Gadde and Inge Halilovic) The IDS 11 release features significant additions over prior versions. It offers many new features for application developers, hierarchical data structure support, and improved query capabilities across multiple instances of the d
QA Strategy and Tactics in a BI Project, Part 3
(Arup Duttaroy) Part 2 continued an in-depth discussion of the quality assurance (QA) organization. Part 3 discusses the scope of testing performed in a business intelligence (BI) project data warehouse (DW).
Building a Storage Engine: Updating Data
(Brian Aker) In our last installment, we looked at how to write data into a storage engine, now lets look at updating it.
Changing Dimensions in Parent Child Hierarchies
(Richard Tkachuk) A changing dimension is a common issue in many OLAP applications. The problem is pretty broad: – Members moving around. For example, after a company reorganization a sales region can be moved from one area to another. – Characteristics of a dimension member change, For example,
What You Need to Know about REST
(Loraine Lawson) I’m seeing a lot of information these days about using REST – representational state transfer – and its use within service-oriented architecture.