(Dan Wellman) Learn about XUL, a subset of XML used to describe user interfaces, that helps you to make rich user interfaces with nothing more complicated than a text editor. In the sixth part of this series learn about XBL, another of XML’s many faces and a partner in crime with XUL, also called XM
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Serrano-Hawk Preview
IBM Information Integration announces Project Serrano-Hawk which will join WebSphere Information Integrator (IBM Project Serrano) and WebSphere Enterprise Data Integration Suite (IBM Project Hawk). Together, they will deliver the right information, in the form you want, whenever you need it, while i
Daily Count and Size of Redo Log Space (Single Instance)
(Ilya Petrenko) The following query shows a count of and the size of the redo log files by day (for a single instance).
Oracle pitches database future on XML
(Matthew Broersma) Oracle will support advanced XML features in the imminent release of its 10g database, including the emerging W3C standard XQuery for accessing unstructured XML data, the company has announced.
Automatic Storage Part 2
(Chris Eaton) In my last posting I discussed the nice side benefit of the new automatic storage in DB2 8.2.2 which allows for DMS tablespaces (even those created prior to 8.2.2) to grow automatically when they fill up. Thus giving DMS like performance with the manageability of SMS tablespaces. So wh
FIX: You experience slow performance when you join local partitioned views with a table in SQL Server 2000
When you join local partitioned views with a table in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Server produces an inefficient query execution plan. The inefficient query execution plan causes poor performance. See the More Information section underneath for a demonstration of reducing the partition view t
MySQL Overview and New Performance-Related Features (Sample Chapter)
(Robert Schneider) This chapter provides an overview of the various MySQL iterations, and how they are covered within the rest of the book, along with the environments in which they were used for the book. Finally, there is a list of performance enhancements and the version of MySQL in which they we
Configure DB2 Universal Database for UNIX to use OpenSSH
(Liam Finnie) Prior to IBM DB2 Universal Database, Version 8.2.2 (Version 8, FixPack 9), DB2 UDB on UNIX platforms, with the Data Partitioning Feature (DPF) enabled, implicitly relied on rsh as the remote shell mechanism when executing commands on remote DB2 nodes. This restriction has been rela
What’s New in Visual Basic 2005?
(Wei-Meng Lee) If you have been a hardcore VB6 programmer and you’ve hesitated about switching to Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 2005 will change your mind and you’ll want to take the leap forward to move to .NET.
Road test: .NET development without Visual Studio
(David McAmis) Since the introduction of Visual Studio, Microsoft has held a near monopoly on integrated development environments(IDEs) for it’s own developer tools. With the release of Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework, Microsoft’s grip on the developer tools market has slipped with a number