(Jack Xia, Anthony Corrente and Savio Pereira) DB2 Cluster running on MSCS is popular, but setting up MSCS requires expensive hardware, like shared disks, making it difficult to setup for test and education purposes. (pdf)
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DB2 Version 8 CPU regression
(Willie Favero) You own a great car. It’s a nice 2 door, drives well, has had some maintenance issues, but overall runs pretty OK. However, it is over three years old and the warranty runs out in a year. While visiting the dealer, you find a great vehicle. It’s a diesel, a completely different engin
Copying database structure without data
(Brian Peasland) I want to take the structure of my database, but not the data. Is it possible in any way? (R)
Managing Multiple Oracle Installations
(Partha S) On my machine, I have two Oracle installations : Oracle 9i Client and Oracle 10g Express Edition (server – henceforward refered to as XE).
Server-Side Creation of Excel 2007 Files Using .NET 3.0 and Office Open XML
(John Tunnicliffe) The adoption of XML as the native file format for Excel 2007 has opened up a whole host of new possibilities. Now for the first time we can create native Excel files on the server using standard tools. No longer is there a need to pollute your beautiful server room with a headless
XSLT Unleashed
(Chris Stefano) You have an application which imports data from an XML file. Odds are that the schema changes or a new namespace is introduced. You will need to rewrite your loader code and update the application at the client. Alternatively, you don’t enjoy writing lots of loopy code using XPathNav
Use Rational Data Architect to define and enforce data object naming standards
(Wei Liu) Data object naming standards promote a common understanding of data, sharing of data across organizational boundaries, and reduction of data redundancy through the consolidation of synonymous and overlapping data elements. As organizations search for ever greater efficiency these days, the
Use of rand() in stored procedures replication – part II
(Il Corra) In my last post (see it for details) about stored procedure replication I was wrong. I’m using 5.0.30 and, in fact, CALL statements are not written to the binlog. My knowledge about SP replication was before 5.0.12. This morning I read carefully the manual 🙂
The .Net Developer And SQL Server: A Primer On Locks
(George P. Alexander Jr.) The off repeated, official excuse still lives: “I’m busy”.
A Look at ASP.NET 2.0’s URL Mapping
(Scott Mitchell) URL mapping – a feature new to ASP.NET 2.0 – enables page developers to map one set of URLs to another. If a request comes in for one of the URLs in the first set, it is automatically re-mapped on the server-side. For example, you can configure the application so that the URL ~/Beve