(Tony Marston) In my long career as a software engineer I have encountered many different sets of development standards. Each organisation tends to have its own set, although I have come across some which have been copied by more than one organisation. I have even worked in companies where diffe
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Extend iSeries Data to Microsoft Excel Efficiently and Transparently
(Tahir Malik) With the introduction of .NET XML Web Services, it’s become easier to deliver iSeries data into Excel. In my last article, I explained how to retrieve data from the iSeries using .NET XML Web Services. Now, let’s go a step further.
Java and the Wild Wild Web (Part I)
(Maria Sarikos) If I had to get a pound sterling (yes, I’m English) for every time I hear, “Java and DB2 for z/OS – you gotta be joking!” – I’d be stinking rich! Life is not all that bad. Java can work with DB2 for z/OS.
DB2 Information Management tech conference, Sept 12-16, Orlando
With over 350 sessions to choose from you will learn how DB2 Information Management Software simplifies and speeds development with embedded capabilities to integrate and analyze information, regardless of its format or location. You will also learn how you can derive new insight, address business i
An Introduction to XUL Part 2
(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. The second part of this series covers implementing more kinds of buttons. It also begins talking about creating Menu Bars
Yukon, Our New Possibility
(Michael Labib) I consider Yukon to be a new way of supporting Microsoft.NET. In fact, when I heard about Yukon I began to ask myself many questions like “How will Yukon support .NET?”, “What will make me go for Yukon?” , “What are Yukon’s features?”, after some researches on my own I found the answ
XPGUID.DLL – Sequential GUID generation and GUID helper functions XP
XPGUID provides a couple of GUID (uniqueidentifier) related procedures to improve the usage of GUIDs inside SQL Server 2000; most importantly it provides a procedure for generating sequential GUID’s, besides that it provides a procedure for testing a string if it represents a valid GUID, without gen
Java theory and practice: Make database queries without the database
(Brian Goetz) I recently advised on a project that involved a fair bit of Web crawling. As the program crawled the various Web sites, it would build a database of the sites and pages crawled, the links each page contained, the results of analysis on each pages, and so on. The end result was to b
Handle distributed transactions with DB2 UDB and Informix Dynamic Server using the JTA
(Uwe Weber) If you are developing database applications with Java and looking for a solution to implement distributed transactions across different databases, you should evaluate the Java Transaction API (JTA). This article gives you an introduction to distributed transactions and how to handle them
Audit – User DB Roles by Database :: (Script Library)
Category: Utilities Tags: Compatibility: SQL Server 2000 only Description: