(Leo Wrobel) Every so often it becomes necessary to write an article a little off the beaten path to describe what people should—or shouldn’t—be doing in areas somewhat tangential to disaster recovery planning. One example is the legal and regulatory reasons for planning; for example, the Sarbanes-O
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Calculating Days of the Week and Accounting Months 5-4-4
(Gregory A. Larsen) My last article related to date calculations, which was written a few years ago, has generated a number of questions from readers. More than one reader has asked me if I knew how to calculate a certain day of the week based on the current date. Therefore, I have decided to write
Transaction And Locking Modes
(Assaf Arkin) In order to understand how the JDO transaction model affects applications performance and transactional integrity, you must first understand the semantics of the Java Data Objects. Java Data Objects are objects loaded from and stored to the database, but are disassociated from the data
Install Oracle RAC 10g on Oracle Enterprise Linux Using VMware Server
(Vincent Chan) Introduced at Oracle OpenWorld 2006 in October, Oracle Unbreakable Linux aims to offer enterprise-class support services for Red Hat Linux, quicker bug fixes, and a significantly lower support prices. And Oracle’s own Enterprise Linux, which is based on Red Hat Advanced Server Release
UTF-8 encoded XML file/stream processing
(Lymington) This DLL provides routines to manipulate UTF-8 encoded XML files. The set provided is not all-singing-and-dancing but a useful, small collection. Several co-operating executables, living off a common UTF-8 encoded XML file, may find their operating parameters and set parameters for other
U2 PDO Driver, Part 2: Write PHP applications to access U2 data
(Double Xia) PHP is one of the most popular languages for Web applications, and now you can use it to access your U2 data. In part 1 of this series, you learned how to create a PHP Data Objects driver for U2. Now, learn how to put the driver you’ve created to use in a PHP application.
The XQuery Chimera Takes Center Stage
(Simon St. Laurent) For the first time in many years, I left an XML conference thinking that XML might actually finally change the Web significantly — and soon.
Customizing the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository User Interface, Part 2: Create view query definitions and navigation trees
(Rob Breeds, Kevin Marsh, Dave Seager, Martin Smithson and Philip Taunton) This article series describes the concepts and architecture of the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository user interface. As you’ll recall, Part 1 of this article series described the concepts and architecture of the Servi
IOD Conference 2007 announced
(Willie Favero) Mark your calendars. Information on Demand (IOD) Conference 2007 has been announced. This is the conference that replaced the DB2 Tech Conference, along with a few other conferences, last year. When it was held last fall, the very first IOD Conference was a tremendous success so you
XForms tip: Using calculations
(Nicholas Chase) Part of the allure of XForms is the fact that it provides more of an opportunity to provide interactivity than regular HTML forms, or at least it provides an opportunity to provide that interactivity with much less hassle. One function that’s fairly common in Web forms is the abilit