(Fraser McArthur and Samuel Poon) Learn the ins and outs and explore the performance and scalability advantages of the IBM DB2 Universal Database Data Partitioning Feature (DPF) in DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Then, walk through the steps to install and configure DB2 with DPF on SUSE Linux
Other News
You may not be able to apply SQL Server 2000 64-bit post SP4 hotfix build 8.0.2156 or a later build
After you use Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0 to apply a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 post Service Pack 4 (SP4) hotfix that is earlier than build 8.0.2156, you may not be able to apply SQL Server 2000 post SP4 build 8.0.2156 or a later build. Typically, this problem occurs when the following conditions
OC4J – The ‘Other’ Oracle Application Server
(Steve Callan) How does extensible markup language relate to the J2EE standalone version of Application Server? If “extensible markup language” sounds unfamiliar to you, perhaps you know it better by its acronym of XML. XML matters not to just to the J2EE version of Application Server, but to all ve
Improving Application Startup Time
(Claudio Caldato) Visual Studio is a wonderful development environment, whose IntelliSense, integrated debugging, online help, and code snippets help boost your performance as a developer. But just because you’re writing code fast doesn’t mean you’re writing fast code.
Using MySQL, Joins
(Keith Brown) In this Virtual Workshop we will look at retrieving data from a relational database structure, i.e. with multiple tables, using the SQL JOIN Syntax. Most databases have multiple tables to avoid repeating data. i.e. why enter the details of a customer over and over again.
Asked & Answered
(Robert Catterall) What’s your recommendation for performing DB2 v.7 traces running under z/OS V1R4 in a production environment? Our tracing, implemented via zPARMs, consumes precious CPU cycles and real memory and also fills up the SYS1.MANx datasets with type 100-102 records in the SMF infrastruc
WebSphere for z/OS to CICS and IMS Connectivity Performance
(Tamas Vilaghy, Rich Conway, Kim Patterson, Rajesh P Ramachandran, Robert W St John, Brent Watson and Frances Williams) The objective of this IBM Redpaper is to help you understand the performance implications of the different connectivity options from WebSphere Application Server for IBM z/OS to CI
Data encryption in UniData and UniVerse
(Bill Winter) Recent government regulations and market demand have increased requirements for protecting data resources. Data encryption is an important tool to help application developers meet the need for greater security. This article describes the encryption options available in IBM UniData and
30 Reasons to Love the DB2 Add-in for VS.NET 2005
(Justin Whitney) It’s all about options. That seems to be IBM’s motto as they continue to expand DB2 functionality across all development platforms. What might once have been a strange bedfellow is fast becoming just another tool for DB2 programmers as IBM continues to put the “universal” in “Univer
Encapsulating ODBC in ASP .NET
(Jason G. Williscroft) In an earlier article (Implementing ODBC in ASP .NET), we described some issues with Microsoft’s ODBC server controls, and how to work through them. In a nutshell, although Microsoft provided the necessary data objects, they left out the logic required to wire these objects in