(Nagraj Alur, Steffen Herold, Huey Kim, Makiko Tsuchida and Mark Wiman) This redbook provides detailed instructions and scripts on managing failover and switchback in a bidirectional Q replication environment for the AIX platform. A typical business scenario is used to showcase the bidirectional fai
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(Barry L. Kline) Hi. My name is Barry, and I’m a DBMS addict. You have to be if you’re in the IT field. As an i5 junkie, my DBMS of choice is DB2. I love its stability, its power, and its lack of a requirement for a full-time DBA to keep it running at peak efficiency. Unfortunately, DB2 on any […]
Use Microsoft Access to interact with your DB2 data
(Kulvir Singh Bhogal) If you have Microsoft Access in use in your enterprise, here’s how to use it to easily access your IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows data. You’ll learn how to set it up for accessing DB2, and then see how to create forms and generate reports based on the underlying DB2 data
Transactions in the .NET 2.0 Framework
(Joe Duffy) Most meaningful software operations are composed of multiple independent steps. Although a single method call, for instance, is often viewed as a logically distinct unit, this is in the eye of the caller. A single method might just execute a single SQL UPDATE statement over 1000 database
Localization in ASP.NET 2.0
(Bilal Haidar) A few years ago we started hearing new terms in economics about globalization and integration of international markets. This made many large business companies begin thinking of how to attract markets from all over the world and not only from domestic markets. The first idea that mi
Visual Studio 2005 Hands-On Tutorial – Part 2
(David Catherman) This is the second part in a series of hands-on tutorials that will take you through all the steps to build a complete application using the new SQL Server 2005 database and Visual Studio 2005 IDE tools.
Nested DataGrids Simplify Hierarchical Data Display
(Lee Richardson) Suppose you are asked to write an ASP.NET search page that performs a database search and displays the results—employee names, recent project assignments for each, and hours billed per week per assignment. Would you approach the task by dynamically constructing HTML tables in a code
An introduction to RDF: exploring the standard for Web-based metadata
(Uche Ogbuji) This article introduces Resource Description Framework (RDF), developed by the W3C for Web-based metadata, using XML as an interchange syntax. RDF’s essential aim is to make work easier for autonomous agents, which would refine the Web by improving search engines and service directorie
Leveraging the WebRowSet object to deliver Web content
(Kulvir Singh Bhogal and Mark Talbot) Most Web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, can now do XML transformations directly within the browser. XML transformations can also be done on an application server. You explore both approaches in this article. First, use a ser
IBM Information On Demand 2006
IBM Information On Demand 2006 global conference is the premier information management event for business and IT executives, managers, professionals, DBA’s and developers. More IBM technical and business solutions content will be in one place than ever before! Select from over 800 sessions: a 2.5