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(Sateesh Kumar) Up to now, I have seen so many applications that will show system usage in terms of memory, processor…But, A user don’t want this all details. He May expect to know how much time, he is spending on each application like browser, Winamp by the end of day…This application will help
Database Documentation Using SQL Doc
(Robert Chipperfield) In a recent article describing Red Gate’s SQL Refactor tool, András Belokosztolszki, observed that it is rare for a developer or DBA to work with a database that they also designed. It is much more common that they are required to work on established databases that have been bu
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(Xaprb) MySQL has no built-in functionality to calculate a table’s checksum in any storage engine but MyISAM. Table checksums can confirm that two tables are identical — useful to verify a slave server is in sync with its master (see my article on reliable MySQL replication for more). Fortunately, i
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Dynamic routing improvements in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.0.2
(Greg Flurry) In this article, I’ll tell you about at the dynamic endpoint mechanism available in WebSphere ESB V6.0.2 (WebSphere ESB) and how you can use it. I’ll also show you how to use mediation primitives, new in Version 6, to support two different forms of endpoint resolution that you can use
XForms in Firefox
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) XForms makes development of Web-deployed applications faster and easier. XForms’ clean architecture makes applications more robust, more scalable, faster, and more secure. Except for one little detail, developing with XForms would be a no-brainer. That detail is that no curre
Performance Monitoring and Best Practices for WebSphere on z/OS
(Alex Louwe Kooijmans, Tony Cox, Ruud Huisman, Magdalena Matysiewicz, Koelli Mungee, Brian Paskin, Martina Scmidt, Thomas Schulze and Brian Paskin) Implementing a WebSphere Application Server environment on z/OS and deploying applications to it in a manner that delivers the best performance is not a
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(Paul Zikopoulos) In this article, I want to show you how you can create a very slick cross tab report using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 to generate a report from an IBM DB2 9 data server.