(Serge Rielau) When porting or migrating an application from Oracle to DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, recursive queries present a significant obstacle. A developer who understands and uses Oracle-style recursion often does not naturally understand DB2 recursion and the same is true the other
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V8 Compat Mode – How long is long enough
(Willie Favero) Migration to compatibility mode is complete, or almost complete. The next big question that comes up is “How Long?” How long is long enough for you to stay in compatibility mode? You will not want to hear the answer. It depends!!! It depends on how you move new releases of software i
SUPERASSERT Goes .NET
(John Robbins) Those of you who have been reading this old Bugslayer column over the last nine years have branded into your frontal lobe a single word: ASSERT! Anytime you can have the code tell you about a problem instead of having to find it by slaving away with a debugger is a huge timesaver. As
IBM WebSphere Application Server – WAS for z/OS and DB2
(Linfeng Yu) Most WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for z/OS customers use DB2 for z/OS as the backend or data store. DB2 for z/OS is a high-performance DBMS, with a strong reputation for handling high-volume data access transactions. Picking the right WAS for z/OS and DB2 Subsystem connectivity ar
Caching Result Sets in PHP: A Content-Change Triggered Caching System
(Alejandro Gervasio) Caching within the context of PHP application acceleration can be triggered based on three possible categories: time expiry, content change, and manually. This article covers an application that triggers the caching mechanism based on a content change condition.
SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Snapshot Isolation
(Kimberly L. Tripp) SQL Server 2005 provides non-locking, non-blocking read consistency to your users via snapshot isolation. Find out when to use it to improve performance and reduce latency in your applications.
Simple Data Paging
(Barend Jnr) This article will show you how to do really, really simple data paging in Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Opening Up Clustered File Systems
(Sean Michael Kerner) Open source continues to make inroads into enterprise storage, and its latest route is clustered file systems.
Oracle Faces Project Fusion Challenge
Oracle’s sweeping Project Fusion vision dominated the company’s message at its Open World user conference recently, but skepticism abounds about the ambitious plan. Fusion is a new, Java-based applications line merging the best features from Oracle’s numerous acquired applications.
Accurately Storing a Visual Basic 6 Date in an XML DOM Document
(Michael Vanhoutte) This document describes one possible way of how you can safely store a Visual Basic 6 Date datatype in an XML Document. Recently, I spent a significant amount of time trying to solve a very simple problem. In a Visual Basic 6 application, I had a variable of a Date datatype that