(Brice Dunwoodie) In an announcement, IBM has been named the lead Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor, in terms of worldwide license revenue.
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WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition: Fast Track Implementation
(Nagraj Alur, Tim J Brown, Chris Delgado, Rincy Isaacs and Maciej Przepiorka) This IBM Redbook provides a detailed description of WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition technology and documents the procedures for implementing it in a single-server Windows 2000 environment and a multiple-s
How to implement a DB2 UDB primary key with a surrogate key
(Jason Zhang) How do you use a surrogate key as a primary key in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB)? A surrogate key is an efficient way to generate unique sequential numbers. Learn about three implementations: the traditional way, using a key manager, and using new DB2 UDB features.
Sequences in Oracle
(René Nyffenegger) A sequence is a highly scalable, non-blocking, numerical ID generator.
Connection Caching in OC4J 10g 10.1.3 Data Sources
(Frances Zhao) One of the most time-consuming operations in deploying J2EE applications is establishing a connection to the database. Application servers commonly offer connection caching, or pooling, to minimize the overhead incurred for this task. (Although the terms “connection caching” and “pool
Understand Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM)
(Martin C. Brown) Management through Web services simplifies the numerous interfaces and solutions that provide management tools for network-attached systems and devices. These range from simple printers to more complex operating system management issues. The Web Services Distributed Management
XSD – Using the include element for schematic reuse
(Jónas Antonsson) XSD – or Xml Schema Definition – defines an XML document outline in terms of constraints to content and structure. Such constraints are additional to those imposed by the basic definition of XML. XML documents can reference a specific schema and by doing so they become instances of
File save as … XML
(Sean McGrath) File Save As … XML I’ll come straight to the point this week (for a change). XML is not – repeat NOT – a ‘file format’ in the sense that most people use the phrase ‘file format’.
Introducing UML: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
(Martin Shoemaker) IN UML, the L is for language, one of the definitions of which is “any means of communicating,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. That is the single overriding purpose of UML, or the Unified Modeling Language: to provide a comprehensive notation for communicating the re
Identifying Your New Records – Introduction
(Bruce Johnson) While the use of AutoNumber and Identity fields in tables is greatly applauded by database designers the world over, they can be annoying for developers to use. The problem being that, when we add records to the database, there are many cases where we need to know the key of the reco