This white paper from Compuware details how the .NET Framework allocates and reclaims memory. It’s a must-read for application developers who want to apply the principles of .NET memory management to their advantage. The paper describes how the .NET garbage collector works and offers a number of mem
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Weaving WebSphere: RPG in WDSC6 and Beyond
(Joe Pluta) In this column, I’ll tell you why RPG is the once and future business language and how IBM is proving it every day. I’ll show you what WDSC brings to the table for RPG programmers, and I’ll tell you about the most important additions to the language, as told by the people who actually wr
Exporting and importing service listings into a database
(Rushi Desai) You implemented a Service Broker service and now want others to be able to talk to it. But they will have to first create your message types and contracts to be able to begin a dialog and send messages to your target service. If their service does not reside in the same SQL Server inst
Microsoft English Query
(Mike Chapple) Most database developers are plagued with user requests on an almost daily basis: “How do I get X information out of the database?” or “Your program doesn’t let me ask the database question Y, is that possible?” Wouldn’t it be nice if all of your users simply understood SQL and could
Axis User’s Guide
SOAP is an XML-based communication protocol and encoding format for inter-application communication. Originally conceived by Microsoft and Userland software, it has evolved through several generations; the current spec is version, SOAP 1.2, though version 1.1 is more widespread. The W3C’s XML Protoc
On using XML well: Creating a dynamic XML menu
(Ben Forta) Not long ago, I started every presentation on XML explaining that it was not a new page markup language and that it did not in and of itself replace HTML. Fortunately, we’ve made some progress of late–developers now understand that XML is nothing more than a data sharing mechanism–simple
Oracle Replication Survival Guide
(Martin Zahn) If you’re going to realize the full potential of Oracle’s advanced replication facilities and simultaneously avoid the pitfalls, you need to understand the architecture on which they are based.
What should be tested in the source (DB2) to ODS (Oracle) to data warehouse (Oracle) cycle and where should the testing occur?
(Sid Adelman) We are currently creating a data warehouse from existing DB2 databases to an Oracle data warehouse. The stages are Source (DB2) to ODS (Oracle) to data warehouse (Oracle) to data marts. What should be tested in this life cycle and where should the testing occur?
DB2 Express Visual Studio dotNet DBApp Building
This “Bubble Text” tutorial shows how to rapidly build dynamic database applications for DB2 UDB V8.2 using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and IBM’s native .NET managed provider.
JAXP validation
(Brett McLaughlin) The latest version of the Java programming language — Java 5.0 — includes an improved, expanded version of the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP). A major addition to JAXP is the new validation API, which allows greater interactivity, support for XML Schema and RELAX NG, and the