(Wei-Dong Zhu, Monti Abrahams, Doris Ming Ming Ngai, Sandi Pond, Hernan Schiavi, Hassan A. Shazly, Ed Stonesifer and Vanessa Stonesifer) This IBM Redbook helps you understand backup, recovery, high availability, business continuity strategies, and options available for IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDe
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‘RACing ahead with Oracle on VMWare Series’ – Part 1: Setting up VMWare for Oracle/Intro to Virtualization/Server Consolidation
(Tarry Singh) I will be starting a little Oracle RAC series with VMWare and will be fondly calling it “RACing ahead with Oracle on VMWare.” This first part is intended to give you a brief introduction to setting up VMWare and the importance of other tools such as VNC, freeNX or NoMachine, PuTTY, etc
Solve the Page Waiting Game with Threaded AJAX
(Jack D. Herrington) People hate to wait. In fact, when it comes to a computer, they hate to wait more than about 200 milliseconds. This can be a problem when your Web-based application uses a process that takes many seconds or even minutes. You can’t just put up a progress dialog or a wait cursor.
Living the ‘Least Privilege’ Lifestyle, Part 5: Surviving as a Mere Developer
(Don Kiely) In part 4 of this series, I attacked the common wisdom that a developer has to have administrative rights on the local machine, the entire domain, and every piece of server software on the network in order to write code. Okay, it’s not that extreme, but it’s a rare developer who needs an
Use DB2 native XML with PHP
(Hardeep Singh and Amir Malik) PHP enables a simple Web application development and deployment environment. This is one of the reasons for its popularity. DB2’s native XML capabilities, coming in the next version and referred to as the DB2 Viper release, further simplify the development process. Thi
Introduction to the TimeSeries DataBlade
(Sean R. Durity) Date and time-stamped data is growing at tremendous rates. The Informix TimeSeries DataBlade offers powerful tools for storing, manipulating, and accessing this type of data. Data architects and programmers can learn how to use this DataBlade to shrink data storage and improve proce
Debugging and promoting DTS packages
(Hilary Cotter) As a SQL Server DBA, you frequently modify Data Transformation Services (DTS) packages, either to correct errors in logic, to extend DTS package functionality or to change the server, database or object name. But rather than debug DTS packages in production environments, you should d
Generics FAQ: Tool Support
(Juval Lowy) Visual Studio 2005 supports generics well. InteliSense displays correctly the generic types, implementing generic interfaces is just as easy as with non-generic interfaces. The most impressive aspect of support is in the debugger, which displays the correct type arguments information wh
Dynamically executing code in .Net
(Rick Strahl) Dynamic code execution is a powerful feature that allows applications to be extended with code that is not compiled into the application. Users can customize applications and developers can dynamically update code easily. In this article, Rick takes a look what it takes to execute
From Plan to Reality
(Joshua Mostafa) Depending on the nature of the project and the environment in which you’re working, you will have different choices at your disposal, and different factors to consider, when putting together a team to work on your project. You may have a development team around you from the outset,