(Mark Brunelli) Oracle has announced the general availability of the open source Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition Release 3.0. (R)
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Microsoft’s Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for June 2006
Twenty-three new webcasts are scheduled for June, covering such topics as Integration Lab, Reporting Services, Getting Started with Data Mining and more.
VB.NET or C#: choose your weapon
(Tony Patton) The debate over which language to use—VB.NET or C#—has been going strong since .NET was first introduced. While you may use other languages, these two are by far the most popular. Each language uses the same .NET code base, so each is equally powerful for application development. Perso
MySQL V5 – Ready for Prime Time Business Intelligence
(Seth Grimes) Business intelligence (BI) creates competitive advantage for organizations of all sizes and in all industries. It is an important business tool, a means of exploiting data previously locked in operational databases. (pdf)
Tuning your System with the Buffer Pool Tool for DB2
Effective pool tuning offers great opportunities for improving both system and application performance. Aside from the elapsed time and cpu savings from I/O elimination, this process often highlights significant application performance problems. This presentation will take you through the steps of
Reduce frustration with XSLT and SQL by employing an innovative approach
(Edmond Woychowsky) There is something refreshing about climbing up on a soapbox and ranting. It doesn’t matter what the subject of the rant is, most of us have some primal need to hop up and down and basically act like Donald Duck. Maybe that is the reason that flame wars are so popular or it could
Insurance Data Standards – Designing XML Messages
(Tana Sabatino) In the third article of this series, I described some basic reasons for success behind one of the insurance XML standards. One key reason for its success was how the transactions were defined in the XML data stream. Instead of a specifically named aggregate, they made a controversial
ASP.NET Datepicker and Calendar Control
(Liam McLennan) When developing enterprise ASP.NET applications it is common to require the input of dates. The two solutions provided by .NET and Visual Studio out of the box; using a textbox with validation and using a calendar control, are both flawed. A textbox leaves too much scope for the user
Lesson 3 Installing SQL Server 2005
(Vidya Vrat Agarwal) It is important that Microsoft SQL Server database administrators are familiar with the requirements for SQL Server installation, previous version coexistence issues, and procedures for adding or removing SQL Server components. In this module, you will learn how to plan for a SQ
DB2 Universal Database Version 8 FixPak 12 (also known as Version 8.2 FixPak 5)
DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) FixPaks are general FixPaks that can be applied on all DB2 UDB products. This includes DB2 Connect, with the exception of Windows platforms.