(Philip Howard) The IBM Information Management group has been taken over by Ambuj Goyal following the retirement (actually she’s not gone yet but will be doing so shortly) of Janet Perna. As a result, he and his team have been busy briefing analysts as to the company’s plans, particularly at a recen
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Is AJAX Here to Stay?
(Jordan Frank) Web development in general recently emerged from a long period of stagnation. While the web browser has become a de facto operating system for the enterprise application, there used to be only two realistic options for developing them: –Build simple web apps that work in any web b
Top 5 Performance Tips for Tuning a Data Warehouse on GRID
A Linux GRID is currently one of the most popular data warehouse implementations. Based on the authors’ extensive experiences in the field of TPC-H and real-world customer benchmarks, this paper describes the top 5 performance tips for tuning a data warehouse on a GRID of Linux clusters: 1. How
Open Source and Proprientary Approaches To Bugs and Quality
Why does it take so much longer for bugs to get fixed in proprietary software than in open source software? It isn’t just the number of “eyeballs” looking at the source code, or even the quality of those eyeballs; it’s a matter of attitude. Keep reading to find out more.
MDX Essentials: Drilling Through with MDX: The DRILLTHROUGH Statement
(William Pearson) As practically anyone involved in business intelligence is aware, multidimensional databases contain aggregated information to support rapid query processing. The beauty of OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) is that it stores high-level summaries for virtually instant delivery to
The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block, Part 3
(John Papa) Enterprise applications can have a wide variety of data update requirements. Sometimes you need to save multiple rows of changes at once within a single transaction. Other times, the user must be allowed to enter multiple rows of data, send them to the database in a batch; and if a row o
IBM Single System View Monitor for DB2
This tool was developed by IBM technical field specialists and development labs for the purpose of quickly and efficiently monitoring a complex DB2 Database Partitioning Feature (DPF) environment. It uses simple and familiar monitoring user interfaces and combines DB2 snapshot information from all p
Overview Of XML Encryption
(Pawan Bangar) XML encryption classifies a course of action for encrypting plain text data, generating ciphertext, and decrypting the ciphertext to retrieve the plaintext data.
Displaying Browser-Friendly RSS Feeds
(Scott Mitchell) Over the past several years the popularity of website syndication through XML syndication standards like RSS and ATOM has flourished. Originally, syndication feeds were the domain of technical sites (like 4Guys, which has an RSS feed of the most recent articles) and blogs. However,
Viewing Customer Data and Maps with Atlas
(Dan Wahlin) With the release of the Atlas technology preview developers have a new way to emulate AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming concepts while using familiar ASP.NET server control style programming. Atlas allows Web applications to make asynchronous calls to back-end syste