(Ashish Nadkarni) Data migration is the process of migrating data from one location to another. It is not something new to the storage industry. Almost every IT organization has had to move data at some point or the other. There are different reasons for doing so: hardware gets obsolete and has to b
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Hash Partition as a Design Method
(Linchi Shea) SQL Server 2005 does not support hash partition as a product feature. But that doesn’t mean you can’t apply the concept of hash partition in your application or database design.
Introduction to message-based applications in SQL Server 2005
(Tim Chapman) Message-based applications are not a new concept but have been traditionally difficult to write from scratch. In this first article in my three-part series about a new platform for creating asynchronous messaging applications, I discuss the concept of message-based applications, and th
Security Goes Mainstream
(Mary Ann Davidson) It occurs to me as I reflect upon my 14-odd years in security at Oracle how mainstream security has become during that time. For example, most well-known security conferences are now dominated by businesspeople instead of security kahunas. I started attending these conferences wh
Integrating WebSphere Partner Gateway and WebSphere Message Broker using JMS and WebSphere MQ
(Cui Jun Tao) IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway enables B2B process integration and data sharing between partners of all types and sizes. While WebSphere Partner Gateway provides a powerful run-time environment to handle documents between business partners, but it has some limitations, such as data acce
Explicit Cursors RIP? Not Quite
(Andrew Clarke) Congratulations to Misbah Jalil over at the Oracle Contractors blog who has just heard the news that implicit cursors are more performant than explicit ones. I think rather unfairly he sticks Steven Feuerstein with the blame for the propagation of the idea that explicit cursors were
DB2 Version 8 CPU regression… a little more info
(Willie Favero) I know Wednesday’s post CPU Regression post (1/24/2007) was a bit long. However, even at its somewhat excessive length for a blog, it didn’t cover near everything there is to say about CPU cost in V8. So, over the next week or so I will be making a few more short posts in an attempt
ORA-12514 error after patch installation
(Maria Anderson) I have installed the Oracle 10.2.0.3 patch on top of 10.2.0.2 on my Oracle 10g instance. After that when I am trying to log in to Oracle I am kicked out with a ORA-12514 error: “ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect.” I had narrowed this dow
Learning .NET: Get started with ASP.NET AJAX development, Part 3
(Ed Tittel) Perhaps those who’ve been doing the Rip Van Winkle thing for the past year might not yet know about Ajax. Best expanded as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, Ajax is a leading development technology that targets interactive Web applications. Heck, even Microsoft has awoken to Ajax potentia
Simplify DB2 for i5/OS index advice
(Scott L. Forstie) Understanding and implementing the best SQL query optimization goal can improve many queries’ response time greatly. IBM DB2 for i5/OS on V5R4 delivers a new way to control query optimization through several popular dynamic SQL interfaces. This article shows how to implement the n