(Bob Swart) This article shows how to use Borland Delphi 2005 and the Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) to import an IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) database and create a UML object model for it, which is the basis for a .NET WinForms application. The object model (called EcoSpace) uses the DB2 UDB
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Integrate unstructured content into a distributed federated system, Part 2: Develop a connector for WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition
(Ryan Graciano) WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition (II CE) provides a single interface to any number of content repositories and workflow systems. This single interface makes it easy for application developers to integrate all of their information sources into new or existing enterpris
3 Trends in the Oracle DBTA World
(Rich Niemiec) I’ve worked with TUSC, a major Oracle Integrator for almost two decades. Over the past 5 years, I’ve seen three major trends that seem to be molding the future of database administration. The first is the adoption of real applications clusters (RAC) and an accelerating trend toward gr
XML Security Suite: Increasing the Security of E-Business
(Doug Tidwell) As more and more companies use XML to transmit structured data across the Web, the security of documents becomes increasingly important. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) are currently defining an XML vocabulary for digital signatures.
ADO.Net 2.0 in 5 minutes
(george.p.alexander) Or ten. But here’s a condensed look at some of the changes and new features we would want to encounter while migrating from ADO.Net v1.x. Earlier we had a look at what’s in store for us C# 1.x developers jumping onto the C# v2.0 bandwagon. I’ve so far just scratched the surface
Kewl DB2 for z/OS Version 8 Feature Part 2a: Multi-row INSERT & FETCH
(Willie Favero) And finally, some actual detail about a DB2 for z/OS Version 8 feature. My first detailed entry will introduce you to multi-row INSERT and FETCH. This Version 8 SQL enhancement does exactly what you would expect. It allows you for the first time, to insert multiple rows or fetch mult
SQL Server incorrectly returns rows that have a NULL value when you try to filter non-Unicode data columns for records from a table
Consider the following scenario. You try to filter non-Unicode data columns for records from a table in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. You use the NOT LIKE clause in a Transact-SQL query statement. You use the “%” wildcard character in the search pattern. In this scenario, SQL Server incorrectly returns
What is XML?
(Ankh) I’ve recently held a number of Future of XML sessions at various conferences. I posted about it on my Advogato blog too. I got quite a lot of feedback, but one thing emerged clearly: XML is what you make of it. There is no one answer. There is no One True Data Model. There is no One True Mean
A Close Look at the Compact XML Schema-Aware XML Processing Framework
(Jinyu Wang) Wide deployment of XML technology in enterprise applications demands high performance XML processing framework. This results in extensive investigation on building an XML processing infrastructure leveraging a compact, pre-parsed XML format, which could save in the memory and CPU cons
Basic DB2 Buffering and Memory Guidelines
(Craig S Mullins) One of the most important areas for tuning DB2 subsystem performance is memory usage. DB2 for z/OS uses memory for buffer pools, the EDM pool, RID pool and sort pools to cache data and structures in memory. The better memory is allocated to these structures, the better DB2 will per