(Dinesh Asanka) Database comparison and synchronization are frequent operations that most of do in our daily work as a developer or DBA. Tulasoft LLC has released a tool called SQL Examiner for the above purposes. There are several third party tools available for you to perform these same tasks for
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Optimizing Oracle 10g on Linux: Non-RAC ASM vs. LVM
(Bert Scalzo) It’s been over a year since my first and enthusiastic automatic storage management (ASM) article, titled “Optimizing Oracle 10g on Linux Using Automated Storage Management”, was published. It still is available here, here and here. Since then, quite a lot has changed in terms of the so
Checkpoint resumes the behavior that it exhibited before you installed SQL Server 2000 SP3 when you enable trace flag 828 on a computer that is running SQL Server 2000 SP4
When you enable trace flag 828 on a computer that is running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4), checkpoint resumes the behavior that it exhibited before you installed SQL Server 2000 SP3.
Middle Matters
(Greg Karpain) Middleware is an evolving term and product category. When the word was introduced more than 20 years ago, middleware generally referred to any programming that served to “glue together” or mediate two separate existing systems. Since then, middleware has evolved to encompass numerous
Making the Grade
(Howard Fosdick) Every now and then I hear a blasé certification candidate tell me that hands-on experience isn’t necessary to pass the DB2 UDB (and other IBM) certification tests. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although there may be cases in which people pass the tests while treating them
Architecting on demand solutions, Part 12: Use DB2 Alphablox to generate reports for your business processes
(Dorian Birsan and Christina Lau) In this twelth article in the series, you learn how to use IBM DB2 Alphablox to generate reports showing historical data about your Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)-based business processes running on IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5
Autogenerate source code for a finite state automaton applying XML/XSLT
(Maxim Alekseikin) Finite state automaton is useful in a couple situation for example: parsing protocols, tracing user input etc. But it has a big lack: automaton’s source code is a very big. It contains a lot of lines and it is hard to create and support it. This article is about how you can reliev
Open-source projects intertwine for integration
(Martin LaMonica) Three open-source projects are teaming up to create an alternative to software-integration products from IBM and other heavyweights. Those involved in talks told CNET News.com that the partnership calls for close technical ties and code sharing among ServiceMix, Apache Synapse
Oracle Application Server 10g Integration Interconnect
OracleAS InterConnect is a comprehensive application integration framework that enables seamless integration of enterprise software. It is built on top of Oracle’s robust integration platform and leverages it’s underlying services. It is designed to integrate heterogeneous systems, be it Oracle
Point in Time Recovery
(Gregory A. Larsen) Every once in a while, an event might happen that corrupts a database. We have all made a stupid mistake at least once that has trashed a database. When this happens what do you do? If you do not have a database backup, then you had better own up to the problem you caused and tel