(John Papa) Constraints are valuable tools for maintaining data integrity in databases. However, there are times when it is convenient to disable one or more of them to perform tasks such as data synchronization with an offline database. When SQL Server replication is used to synchronize data betwee
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Introducing MySQL Deadlock Logger
(Xaprb) I’m continuing to add new tools to the MySQL Toolkit. MySQL Deadlock Logger is for extracting and storing information about the latest recorded InnoDB deadlock. It’s not only easy to view the information from the command line, it’s dead simple to store it back into a MySQL table for analysis
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Sun Studio tools and DB2 V8.2 on Solaris 10 Zones
(Jignesh K. Shah) Every DBA or System Administrations or Software Developers find some need of “drilling-down” to the call-flow of how an application is interacting with the Operating System beneath it.
IBM Overhauls Its BI Strategy
(Heather Havenstein) IBM overhauled its approach to business intelligence by adding analysis capabilities to its data warehouse and unveiling BI appliances for small and midsize companies.
Building an Online Storage System in ASP.NET 2.0
(Xianzhong Zhu) Nowadays, many IT companies have provided their different kinds of online storage systems, which are very popular network services, to enable users to directly manage their data via a simple browser anywhere in the world. In this article I will try to dissect the key techniques in bu
DB2 Version 8 DFSORT questions are starting up again
(Willie Favero) I still get questions about DB2 V8 and DFSORT. I posted a couple of times about this way back on 08/01/2005 and 09/11/2005. One of the short comings of a blog, you are only reminded about the most current entries. Things that were posted months ago tend to be “out of sight, out of
Developing a Wonderful ASP.NET TextField Control
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article introduces you to the concept of the User Control. It also walks you through the development of a well-featured TextField control with several functionalities.
A Relational View of the Semantic Web
(Andrew Newman) As people are increasingly coming to believe, Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web have a lot in common: both are concerned with allowing communities to share and reuse data. In this way, the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 can both be seen as attempts at providing data integration and presenting a
Capture an Oracle 10g audit trail in XML format
(Bob Watkins) The Oracle database has long had the ability to audit selected types of operations against the database, storing the audit trail in a system table. This table, SYS.AUD$, resides in the data dictionary. On some operating systems, you can also write audit records to the operating system’