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When you replicate tables from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server 7 to DB2/400 on an IBM AS/400 system through the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2, you may need to qualify the table name to ensure that the table is placed in the right location. The qualified table name syntax is:
META Group Report: The End of Database Licensing?
In this report, the META Group says that as the competition for open source heats up, it is the support (e.g., technical, implementation, ISV) that will decide how soon adoption takes place and show will win. MySQL Network is an innovative support offering that threatens traditional commercial softw
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Just SQL Part I
(James Koopmann) The spelling is so easy and even rolls off our lips with simplicity. The fact of the matter is this language has caused more agony than one can imagine. I get dozens of emails and forum posts every week, wanting to know how to extract or insert data from a RDBMS. Developers I have w
Administrate Indexing Server from within your application
(Klaus Salchner) You can leverage Microsoft Indexing Server to provide powerful search capabilities within your application. Indexing Server can be used to index files on your local or network file system as well as files of your local web site. You can then query the Indexing catalog using a standa
SQL Server Replication Across Domains and the Internet
(Paul Ibison) Replication over the Internet or across non-trusted domains is usually performed using a virtual private network (VPN), and consequently the configuration is much the same as that used on a LAN. This article outlines what to do if such a VPN is not available. While it’s true that i
N.C. non-profit helps the disabled with LAMP software
(Tina Gasperson) Employment specialist and open source advocate Robert MacEwan changed his career plans after doing some “temporary” work at the Beaufort County Developmental Center (BCDC) in Washington, N.C. Now, instead of pursuing a degree in computer science, he’s pursuing a path that makes a di
The Evolution of JAXP
(Rahul Srivastava) After the first release of the W3C XML 1.0 recommendation in early 1998, XML started gaining huge popularity. Sun Microsystems Inc., at that time had just formalized the Java Community Process (JCP), and the first version of JAXP (JSR-05) was made public in early 2000, supported b
System Programmer’s Guide to: Workload Manager
(Paola Bari, Pierre Cassier, Annamaria Defendi, John Hutchinson, Alain Maneville, Gianfranco Membrini and Caleb Ong) This IBM Redbook gives a broad understanding of the Workload Manager component of the z/OS system. It covers basic aspects of Workload Manager (WLM) together with the new functions a