(Scott Swigart) Review the exciting new changes in version 2.0 of the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET framework that make the switch for Visual Basic 6.0 developers an easy and functional move.
Other News
Opening the open source community to a profitable business model
(Stephen Feller) A paper recently written by two university professors offers a business model that would keep the software open and free, while allowing its developers to profit. The model would have open source software companies make money through royalty fees and sales of their newest innovation
Staying Power
(Robert Catterall) I hate to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but you should know that bad things happen to good computer systems. Sometimes the problems are facilities-related: power failures, cooling-system failures, plumbing problems, and the like. Sometimes a server or disk subsystem or some ot
Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming, Chapter 3: PL/SQL Basics (Sample Chapter)
(Scott Urman, Ron Hardman and Michael McLaughlin) Syntax and rules govern what you can and cannot do in PL/SQL. While following syntax and programming standards alone do not make a program good, failure to understand the rules of the language can certainly make a program bad. In this chapter, we dis
Reading committed records without locks
(Craig Mullins) We have an issue in our OLTP and Datamart 24/7 design (both on DB2 UDB V8.1 on AIX). While running ETL against the OLTP database, if the ETL process uses “Cursor Stability” isolation, it potentially locks out other users. So we changed isolation to “Uncommitted Read.” This added a ne
Be Aware: Using AWE, locked pages in memory, on 64 bit
(Slava Oks) We have already talked about Windows AWE mechanism on 32 bit and how SQL Server utilizes it. Today I would like to go over AWE & related mechanism on 64 bit platforms.
Using Altova’s XMLSpy 2006 Visual Studio .NET Integration
(Ed Tittel) In November 2005, XML tool and technology vendor Altova announced support for Visual Studio 2005 in its XMLSpy 2006 product offerings. XMLSpy is a well-liked and widely-used XML development environment that includes advanced features to model, edit, debug and transform XML-related markup
Staying Power!
(Stephen Swoyer) Common Business Oriented Language and Assembler rule today’s mainframe shops, but enterprise codejockeys have more application development options than ever. Even programmers who have little or no mainframe experience can write C, C++ or Java code on Windows and Linux systems and re
Application Auto Update in VB.NET
(Eduardo Oliveira) This code enables an application to update itself when there is a new version available. The auto update is transparent to the user and checks for new updates every time the user launches the program. This code was written to be used in a controlled environment (intranet) and is n
Improving concurrency by knowing your application (Part 2)
(Chris Eaton) In addition to the DB2_SKIPINSERTED registry variable I discussed in my last posting IBM delivered the DB2 _EVALUNCOMMITTED feature in 8.1.4. By setting this registry variable to ON, DB2 will examine rows that are currently locked as the result of a currently uncommitted transaction.