(Alex Osuna, Jawarhar Lal, Roger Sanders and Jeremy Brumer) Database cloning is the process by which you create an exact copy of a DB2 database, either by physically copying the data or by performing what is known as a redirected restore. (pdf)
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(Paul Zikopoulos) Customers choose the IBM DB2 data server because of its incredible time to value, its ability to scale and integrate across disparate environments, its robustness, and for the minimization of ‘down-time’ (both planned and unplanned). In this article, I focus on the high-availabilit
Hyperscale Messaging in .NET with Amazon’s Simple Queuing Service (SQS)
(Gautam Shah) Message Queuing (MQ) has long been a foundation for applications that require asynchronous and disconnected communications. Implementations of Message Queuing such as Microsoft’s MSMQ, IBM’s WebSphere MQ, TIBCO’s Rendezvous, and Progress Sonic’s SonicMQ are all mature, highly reliable,
Parse Tab Delimited Log Files With Visual Basic 2005 ‘My’ Namespace
(Mike McIntyre) Fields of data in log text files is often tab delimited. To access the fields of data in a tab delimited log file, or any tab delimited text file for that matter, the file must be parsed. Parsing a tab delimited text file is the process of transforming input text into a data structur
Multiple form-based programming in ASP.Net
(Sanjay Kumar) The ASP.Net relies on Single Form Interface (SFI) instead of Multi Form Interface (MFI), because SFI is a key element for the implementation of the ASP.NET state maintenance feature. Thus if you host two or more server side form then you will get run-time error ‘A page can have only o
Are you designing IO bound or CPU bound application ?
(Peter Zaitsev) This topic may look boring and obvious but it is extremely important for MySQL Performance Optimization. In fact I probably have to touch it in every second MySQL Consulting work or even more frequently.
Oracle RAC Administration – Part 11:The RAC DBA continued
(Tarry Singh) In this article, we will continue our discussion of Oracle RAC DBA essentials. We have already looked at Enterprise Linux and will continue to build our “Oracle RAC Appliance” on the Oracle Enterprise Linux layer.
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(Jack D. Herrington) Rich Internet Applications is the new buzz-phrase for Web 2.0, and a key component of the substance behind Web 2.0 is Adobe Flash. Learn how to integrate Flash movies into your application and generate Flash movies dynamically using the Ming library.
Installing a SQL Server 2005 instance
(Jeremy Kadlec) To most DBAs and developers, installing and configuring a new SQL Server is exciting because it brings on a whole new set of challenges and opportunities. The installation is just the first of many new learning opportunities with the latest version of SQL Server. In this guide we’ll