(Paul C. Zikopoulos and Leon Katsnelson) DB2 Connect is IBM middleware for connectivity from distributed systems to zSeries and iSeries-based DB2 systems. This article introduces DB2 Connect and discusses the different editions and pricing models to help you decide which edition of DB2 Connect is ri
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(Ed Scannell) IBM Global Services (IGS) added a little more muscle to its services-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative by signing up two new partners and broadening its portfolio with new technical capabilities.
Script to monitor Log Space Utilization
(Chris Eaton) Here is a script to monitor your log space utilization.
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(Scott Klein) For HTML experts, the information in this series of articles is going to mainly be general information on how to accomplish certain tasks (such as today’s article on Tables, future articles such as Links and Frames) in XHTML, with a few new added bits like the differences, if any, bet
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(Mark Brunelli) It will be at least a year before Bruce Copping’s company is ready to plan an upgrade to Oracle Database 10g Release 2. (R)
Oracle Case Insensitivity in 10gR2
(James F. Koopmann) Started going through a few lose ends in my email farm and noticed one that I got from an Oracle product manager on the globalization side. We had a discussion a few months back about case insensitivity and I pointed out that Oracle didn’t really have true case insensitivity beca
FIX: An ‘Error 17883’ error message may be logged, and SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7.0 may stop responding when you run an application that creates COM objects by using the sp_OACreate function
When you run an application that creates Microsoft COM objects by using the sp_OACreate function within Transact-SQL code, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 may stop responding (hang). Additionally, the following error message may be logged in the SQL Server error log: Error:
Granting permissions in SQL Server 2005
(Adam Machanic) Imagine for a moment that you’re a SQL Server 2000 production DBA (unless, of course, you are). You arrive at the office one morning, get a hot drink and check your e-mail. There are two new co-worker requests in your inbox: Bob in purchasing needs read-only access to all of the sale
Hurricane relief organizer lauds MySQL, open source
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