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ANTs offers MySQL and Informix compatibility
(James Niccolai) ANTs Software has released an update to its high-speed relational database that adds compatibility for applications written for databases from MySQL and IBM’s Informix division.
Oracle rounds out identity management suite
Having thrown its hat into identity management with the acquisition of Oblix earlier this year, Oracle Corp has now made two acquisitions in provisioning and virtualization, to narrow the gap with IBM Corp and Computer Associates International Inc.
Tablespaces in Linux, UNIX, Windows
(Chris Eaton) The concept of a tablespace in DB2 for LUW is pretty much identical to that of DB2 for z/OS. That is, a tablespace is a storage management concept and is an object that you put tables in. So tables live in tablespaces and a tablespace is an object that has physical storage associated w
MAS 200 for SQL Server
At Best Software, we take pride in offering the best possible software solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. Our charter for MAS 90 and MAS 200 is to provide customers with broad and deep application functionality built on rock-solid, proven platforms. Most important of all, we want to sim
Deploy Windows application with Visual C# .NET and Visual Studio .NET (Sample Chapter)
(Kirk Hausman and Ed Tittel) Learn how to use Visual Studio .NET to deploy simple and complex applications. This information, including practice questions, will help you prepare for the Microsoft 70-316 certification exam. (pdf)
CodeSnip: Handling SOAP Exceptions in Web Services
(Vishal Kumar Patil) A Web service provides functionality independent of the programming languages and the operating system; hence, it’s necessary for the Web services to throw exceptions in a platform-independent manner. To accomplish this, we need to raise SOAP exceptions from the Web service that
Understand the ambiguities of compound JOINs in SQL
(Arthur Fuller) This article begins with a test. Look at the SQL below and determine, without using your computer, what the result set will look like.
The Secrets of Oracle Bitmap Indexes
Oracle’s two major index types are Bitmap indexes and B-Tree indexes. B-Tree indexes are the regular type that OLTP systems make much use of, and bitmap indexes are a highly compressed index type that tends to be used primarily for data warehouses.