(Willie Favero) Ya, I know… it’s not z/OS… however, even though this webpage’s content is completely DB2 LUW specific, it’s still extremely cool. It contains lots of podcast covering different aspects of DB2 for LUW. It’s also set up as an RSS feed so you can subscribe to the page and get notified w
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Tip/Trick: Supporting Full Screen Mode with Silverlight
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System Administration Certification exam 918 for IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11 prep, Part 2: System activity monitoring
(Manjula Panthagani and Sergio R. Eng) Learn to monitor database server activity for IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). Examine various tools to monitor, diagnose problems, and manipulate IDS data. The second in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918.
Best Practices for Date/Time Calculations in SQL Server
(Alex Kozak) A few months ago, I received a message from quite an experienced DBA and database programmer asking me whether I knew a nice trick for manipulating date/time data without using Microsoft SQL Server’s date/time functions—something like GETDATE() + 10. It reminded me of a few internet for
Upload multiple XML files to an XML data type column
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‘Out-of-range datetime value’ error in SQL Server when working with dates
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SQL Server Replication-The Crib Sheet
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