(Satheesh Kumar) The logical datacenter diagram communicates important information to developers about the target environment into which their application systems will be deployed. The Logical datacenter Designer is used to create the logical representation of the logical datacenters. Logical Data
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.NET Framework 3.0
(Somasegar) When speaking to developers about WinFX one question that repeatedly comes up is, “WinFX sounds great, but what happens to .NET?” .NET Framework has becomes the most successful developer platform in the world. Developers know and love .NET.
Techniques for Indexing Low-Selectivity Columns in SQL Server
(Aldrich Merrill) Most of us have probably faced this situation at one time or another: there’s a deceptively simple query in your system that’s performing poorly: SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM aLargeTable WHERE flag = 1
Configure RAID for maximum SQL Server I/O throughput
(Greg Robidoux) The name of the game is I/O throughput. Running backup and restore sessions is one of the most I/O intensive activities you will perform on your SQL Server. That’s because when you run a backup and/or restore you are reading the entire contents of the database and then writing the en
Manipulate a file system with VB.NET to see if files and directories exist
(Irina Medvinskaya) An important function of any program is the ability to work with a file system and manipulate files and directories. In this tip, we examine how to work with a file system using VB.NET. We show you a handy way to perform necessary functions with examples that utilize the existing
FIX: The SQL Server database crashes, and you receive an error message when you run a complex query against SQL Server 2000
When you run a complex query against Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the SQL Server database crashes. Additionally, you receive an error message that resembles the following: Date Time server Error: 17883 Severity: 1, State: 0 Date Time server Process 52:0 (94c) UMS Context 0x121A9C98 appears to be n
IBM terms DB2 Viper major generational leap
IBM is talking about the addition of “pure XML” and mainframe-like compression techniques to DB2 version 9, which until now was better known by its code name “Viper.” The release covers DB2 for distributed platforms on Windows, Unix, and Linux.
Bring applications to market faster with DB2 9
Information is everywhere. Delivering the right information to the decision makers at the right time is critical to achieving business results. Information can reside in existing relational databases, Web services, or within files. The nature of information is changing as more and more information i
Set up a multi-tier WebSphere V6 SPECjAppServer2004 cluster with DB2 on Windows
(Tony Lau and Meng Fu) Testing is expensive. In J2EE performance testing, a tremendous amount of time and effort have been spent setting up the System Under Test (SUT) and workload driver. In order to address today’s business needs, an e-business system always consists of a hetergenous cluster of se
Revisiting Operator Overloading
(Ken Getz) On the conference circuit recently, I was speaking about some of my favorite new features in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, using the content of three recent columns in this series as fodder. In my talk I sped through generics, operator overloading, and the BackgroundWorker component,