(Wayne Eckerson) Most organizations today are stuck in the adolescent phase of business intelligence (BI). They’ve built a data warehouse, purchased some BI tools, and seen some uptake by end users. However, the status of their BI program is anything but certain.
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Building a Full-Featured Custom DataGrid Control
(Dimitrios Markatos) .NET, among its other amazing features, allows developers and programmers a rich platform with the capability to build custom controls deriving from already common base server controls, i.e. The Datagrid, the most commonly used and full-featured server control in .NET. One of th
Working with Exceptions using C#
(Joydip Kanjilal) This article discusses the basics of exceptions and implementation of a custom exception class that would enable us to provide a generic approach towards exception handling.
XML Storage – Part 1
(Chris Eaton) Let’s start looking into DB2 Viper with a look at XML storage. What’s the big deal with XML? Well I would bet that almost all of your companies are doing something with XML. There are many uses for XML. The one many people think of is XML document management where your documents, like
Ruby on Rails on Oracle: A Simple Tutorial
(Richard Monson-Haefel) You may have already heard about Ruby on Rails, the new application framework that seems to be taking the Web development community, in particular J2EE and PHP programmers, by storm.
IBM DB2 Content Manager for iSeries, Part 5: eClient for iSeries
(Jack Boswell) The eClient application provides the user interface that lets you receive, classify, use, store, and view documents using the IBM Content Manager solution. This article shows you how to perform these tasks. (pdf)
Developing with Apache Derby — Hitting the Trifecta: Database development with Apache Derby, Part 1
(Robert Brunner) You can begin developing database applications quickly, but you can spend a lifetime mastering them. Fortunately, Apache Derby is a lightweight database, and you won’t need to devote your life to becoming proficient. You’ll be able to start working with it after following the steps
Row Count Plus Transformation
(Konesans Ltd) As the name suggests we have taken the current Row Count Transform that is provided by Microsoft in the Integration Services toolbox and we have recreated the functionality and extended upon it. There are two things about the current version that we thought could do with cleaning up
System and Storage Configuration for SQL Server
(Joe Chang) A proper, technically correct system and storage sizing assessment of a SQL Server system and storage configuration needs to consider a broad range of CPU, memory and IO usage analysis. The cost of this assessment might be $10-20K with proper accounting for personnel time, depending on t
One more reason to bind after migrating to DB2 V8
(Willie Favero) Have you noticed a decrease in performance of some queries after migrating to DB2 for z/OS Version 8? I’m referring to those long running applications with SELECTs and FETCHs that process lots of rows and return lots of columns. Those queries that also ran just fine while you were in