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Transaction IDs in DB2

(Knut Stolze) Need to be able to identify the current unit of work that is running against an IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) server? This article shows you how to accomplish this task, using a stored procedure and the the unique transaction identifier in the header of each log record.

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Hot backup script

(Ravi Nookala) This UNIX shell script will facilitate a hot backup of one Oracle database. It has been tested on 7x, 8x and 9x, and was developed using parametric cursors to be more compact. You must edit this file to replace the relevant variables and paths to suit your environment. (R)

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Caching in the SSIS Service

(Kirk Haselden) Integration Services is of all things a platform. While some platforms are pretty useless until you actually build something with them, SDKs and APIs like DirectX etc (Yes, definitions of “platform” differ) others are extremely functional out of the box, Windows, Office etc.

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Rexx Scripting for DB2

(Howard Fosdick) Scripting languages hold a big advantage over traditional programming languages (such as C++, Java, and COBOL): They make developers more productive. Each line of code in a scripting language typically does more than a line of code in a traditional programming language.