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DB2 9 Application Development exam 733 prep, Part 5: CLI/ODBC programming
(Roger E. Sanders) This tutorial introduces you to DB2 Call-Level Interface (CLI)/ODBC programming and walks you through the basic steps used to construct a CLI/ODBC application. This tutorial also introduces you to the process used to convert one or more high-level programming language source code
Using index for ORDER BY vs restricting number of rows
(Peter Zaitsev) One interesting problem with MySQL Optimizer I frequently run into is making poor decision when it comes to choosing between using index for ORDER BY or using index for restriction.
Last week I mentioned an article on DFSORT
(Willie Favero) This week I want to remind all of my friends moving to DB2 Version 8 that the DB2 Utilities use DFSORT, regardless of what sort product you might own. Because of this change it is imperative that you visit the two informational APARs available that discuss this new requirement and ex
Delivering Next Generation User Interfaces for Business Intelligence Using AJAX
(Rado Kotorov and Diane Sklar) This paper explains why Information Builders chose to use a component-based AJAX architecture for its new report and graph authoring solution – WebFOCUS Power Painter. The first section puts AJAX in the context of the emerging Web 2.0 technologies. The second section f
Blogging at Work With Lotus Notes
(John Roling) Over the past couple of years, we all know the use of blogs on the Internet has skyrocketed. People have been creating personal web logs to discuss everything from politics, to technology, to what their favorite reality show contestant did last night. Until the past year, blogs have ge
Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0
(John Peterson) If you’ve been wanting to leverage the power of AJAX in your ASP.NET Web applications, but aren’t a client-side Javascript and XML guru, the moment you’ve been waiting for is finally here. Microsoft just recently released version 1.0 of the “Atlas” project, calling it simply ASP.NET
A Tale of a .NET Component (Part II)
(Peter Aitken) Most programming articles focus on one specific aspect of technology. As useful as that approach is, it unavoidably leaves out some aspects of the development process. By looking at every detail of a development project in detail, as this series does, you may gain insights into the pr
Control file reads & writes
(James F. Koopmann) The three different wait events of ‘control file sequential read’, ‘control file single write’, and ‘control file parallel write’ all contribute to the amount of time Oracle takes to keep the control file current.
Build a Photo Viewer Using the New FTP Classes in .NET 2.0
(Wei-Meng Lee) One of the features released with the 2.0 version of .NET was support for FTP. In .NET 2.0, you can now programmatically access FTP servers using the FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse managed classes (both derived from the WebRequest and WebResponse classes).