(Tarry Singh) Part 1 of this series gave you a gentle nudge on what Virtualization is and how you could use this technology to test and run all kinds of scenarios on your PC, before you started doing it in production. Contrary to what people say, you CAN deploy an Oracle RAC on VMWare using the ESX
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Design and Architecture (Sample Chapter)
(Keir Davis) A network server application that can handle only one client at a time isn’t very useful. For example, consider an IRC chat application wherein only one client could connect to an IRC chat server at a time. How much fun would it be to chat with yourself? A server is typically required t
SQL Server 2005 Replication Error : The Distributor has not been installed correctly
(Narayana Vyas Kondreddi) This is a short article to make you aware of an error returned by “Expired subscription clean up” job, when you setup replication in SQL Server 2005 (Yukon). Though the “Expired subscription clean up” job fails with the below error, there is nothing wrong with your replicat
Retrieving ISeries Data with Microsoft Query (Sample Chapter)
(Chris Peters and Brian Singleton) Microsoft Query, the helper application included with Microsoft Office, allows Office applications such as Word and Excel to read data from ODBC data sources. While Query retrieves and formats data for inclusion in other Office applications, it isn’t a widely k
MySQL hangs on to BitKeeper
(Sam Varghese) At least one open source software project is still using the proprietary BitKeeper source code management system, after it went commercial and stopped producing a free version.
IBM readies Domino for SOA
(Tan Ee Sze) IBM is weaving collaboration into its SOA (service oriented architecture) strategy by providing built-in support for the conversion of existing Domino applications to web services in the latest version of its Lotus Notes and Domino 7.
An evaluation of Oracle for persistent data storage and analysis of LHC physics data
(Eric Grancher and Maciej Marczukajtis) The LHC experiments at CERN will generate huge volumes of data – several PB per year – at data rates between 100MB/s and 1.5GB/s. The storage and analysis of these data present a major challenge. In collaboration with other members of the former RD45 project,
Atom 1.0 Extensions, Part 2: Copyright licenses, automated processing of links, and syndicating threads
(James Snell) In this, the second of a two-part series exploring a number of work-in-progress extensions to the Atom 1.0 Syndication format, I’ll focus on the topics of copyright licensing, controlling automated downloads, and syndicating threaded discussions.
BUG: You receive an ‘Error 14269’ error message when you try to modify the SQL Server Agent job if the combination of the computer name and the instance name is more than 30 characters
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you identify a named instance by using a combination of the computer name and the instance name that is specified as computernameinstancename. If the combination of the computer name and the instance name is more than 30 characters, you can create a new SQL Server Agen
The Singleton and Factory Patterns in PHP: Building object-oriented forms
(Alejandro Gervasio) Experienced PHP programmers know that web development problems are often tackled by using widely known design patterns within the context of an application. This article is the first in a series that will demonstrate how the Singleton and Factory patterns can be implemented in a