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The Essential Guide: Diagnosing and Resolving Performance Problems
SQL Server grows easier to use and manage with every new release and, consequently, has become the database management system of choice for businesses of all sizes and industries. As your business grows larger so does the size of your databases and the number of users those databases support. Rest
Oracle makes ‘big splash’ with ECM entry
(Jack Loftus) An analyst firm is giving high marks to Oracle’s new Content Services 10g and Records Management 10g line. (R)
Managing Application Binding for Performance and Availability
(Keith Mullins) DB2 application rebinding is a maintenance issue that forces DB2 shops to make a difficult decision: when do you rebind? Many shops choose to either perform mass rebinds after reorganizations or avoid rebinding altogether. In both cases, these “all or nothing” approaches have liabili
Oracle RAC & Grid Tuning with Solid State Disk, A Review – Part 1
(Lewis R Cunningham) Oracle RAC & Grid Tuning with Solid State Disk, sub-titled: Expert Secrets for High Performance Clustered Grid Computing is a pretty specific book covering RAC and how it can make the most of Solid State Disk (SSD). The goal of this book is to show how SSD can improve the pe
What’s an Instance? And where is my Subsystem?
(Chris Eaton) If you are new to DB2 LUW from a DB2 for z/OS background then the first thing you probably noticed is that there is no subsystem on the LUW platform. Instead you will hear the term Instance used in a similar manner. An instance in DB2 for LUW is like a copy of the RDBMS including all t
What to Know About Visual Studio 2005 — The Products
(Bradley Jones) Although Visual Studio 2005 was initially planned to release in the first half of 2005, the ambitions of the product caused a few delays to help ensure a product that was solid enough for production use. This new version of Visual Studio follows well over two-and-a-half years aft
Resolve DB2 Instance Creation Failure on UNIX
(R. Vijaya) On AIX, and UNIX in general, DB2 instance creation fails with vague errors: Update DBM cfg SYSADM_GROUP errcode = 8 DBI1281E The database manager configuration file could not be initialized.
An Introduction to MySQL, LAMP Stack and Microsoft Windows Development
(Ben Reichelt) When open source software is mentioned, one of the first thoughts that comes to mind is the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python). While these products are not generally associated with Windows development, at least one of them is certainly well suited for Windows dev
Database Security and Patches – Part 1
(Steve Callan) For some products, keeping up with patches is almost a full time job in and of itself. Microsoft has certainly garnered a lot of attention when it comes to patches and security updates. Chances are that the computer you are using to read this article has an automatic update service ru