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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

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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

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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