(Tony Patton) One of the most talked about topics in the industry right now is how the U.S. government’s changes to Daylight Saving Time (DST) will affect IT resources. Most of the attention is focused on operating systems, but application developers are raising a number of questions as well. Let’s
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Eliminating partition tables during export
(Maria Anderson) We are upgrading our database from Oracle 8i to 10g on a Windows platform. Our production database is in 8i and the upgrade method we are using is imp/exp. The production box contains a lot of partition tables. If we export we will get the “rollback segment too small” error. So we a
PowerSMO At Work Part I: DBA Scripts and Functions
(Dan Sullivan) In my previous introduction to PowerSMO, I covered the most basic operations of PowerShell, PowerSMO, and WMI. This article will investigate some of the more powerful PowerShell features, in particular scripts and functions, and then use those with PowerSMO to manage the extended prop
Develop a Web application using Ajax with Dojo and DB2
(Leons Petrazickis) Follow this case study for quickly creating an elegant, responsive Web application using IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, XQuery, PHP, and the Dojo Javascript Framework. The case study is based on IOD Planner 2006, a Web application that was used for the IBM Information On
Content delivery system design mistakes
(Peter Zaitsev) This week I helped dealing with performance problems (part MySQL related and part related to LAMP in general of system which does quite a bit of content delivery, serving file downloads and images – something a lot of web sites need to do these days. There were quite a bit of mistake
Oracle moves a step closer to Fusion
(Arif Mohamed) The launch of Oracle E-Business Suite 12 last month is a major step towards Oracle’s first fully standards-based, service oriented architecture (SOA) suite, Fusion Applications due in 2008.
Setting up Db2 v9 as a Coldfusion Datasource
(Victor Rubba) In the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to get to know Coldfusion just a little bit better. One of the first challenges I faced is getting CF talking to Db2, so I could take advantage of the CF Extensions for Flexbuilder and that funky Wizard. To be precise I used ColdFusion MX
Enumerating projects in a Visual Studio solution
(Serge van den Oever) People writing add-ins for Visual studio probably have come across the nightmare of the Visual studio object model to go through the projects within a solution. I had to get the list of projects in a solution, and for each solution its output path in the current configuration.
Looking at the WCF Windows Communication Foundation
(Jayant Kulkarni) To make your life as a developer easy, Microsoft continuously brings new technologies to the market. Sometimes, these technologies are similar to existing technologies, and at other times large enhancements are made in the current technologies. As a result, at times you see the pro
Data Warehouse Design in the Real World, Part 1
(William McKnight and Mike Cross) There is a notion that all of an organization’s data, both current and historical, needs to be in the enterprise data warehouse, regardless of its current or future necessity. In today’s world of exploding data, limited resources and viable architectural alternative