(John Breeden II) It’s pretty neat to think of a computer or a server healing itself, and that is exactly what IBM is going for across its product line. IBM’s DB2 Universal Database 8.2 incorporates some of these self-awareness features, which puts it ahead of most other databases in this category.
Other News
IBM Unveils Software to Help Automate Records Management and Compliance Across Heterogeneous Environments
IBM introduced a new software solution designed to usher in a new age of automated electronic records management, helping customers address compliance requirements and manage risk across disparate silos of unmanaged content, accelerating their move to an on demand business.
Momentum Builds Behind Travel-Industry XML Spec
(Tony Kontzer) A standard XML messaging specification is picking up momentum in the travel industry, promising improved connectivity between business partners, better packaging of travel products and services, and lower distribution costs.
Create a Modern Extension to Your Online Business with a Public API
(Laurence Moroney) For several years now, the use of affiliate networks in e-commerce has grown tremendously. Amazon, the vanguard of this technique, and many companies like it allow anyone who can consume a Web service to become an affiliate. Being an affiliate means you sell goods on their behalf—
Content Manager OnDemand Backup, Recovery, and High Availability
(Wei-Dong Zhu, Monti Abrahams, Doris Ming Ming Ngai, Sandi Pond, Hernan Schiavi and Vanessa Stonesifer)This IBM Redbook will help you to understand backup, recovery, high availability, and business continuity strategies and options available for IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand. (pdf)
CalPoly standardizes on Oracle
(Jack Loftus) Oracle started at the head of the class at California Polytechnic University, and over the past eight years has remained there under the guidance and support of the University’s CIO, Jerry Hanley. (R)
Oracle Database Lite 10g Business White Paper
In today’s economy, information is the fuel that keeps enterprises running. Enterprises embraced the Internet for its ability to rapidly deliver information from computer to computer. Now, mobile technology is becoming the intermediary, bridging the gaps and enabling the extension of your databa
Utilize MySQL’s features through .NET
(Tony Patton) Discover how you can use the .NET Framework to work with all aspects of your MySQL data. Also, get extended examples of how to work with MySQL data via .NET.
Choose alternatives for public and private synonyms
(Scott Stephens) This article explains why you should avoid public and private synonyms and use alternatives that depend on your application design. The best alternative is to always fully qualify a table with its schema name.
Previous or Next? Paginating Records with PHP – Part 2
(Alejandro Gervasio) In the first article in this series, we learned how to do simple pagination of records taken from a text file. In this article, we will look at pagination for a larger group of records, using an Objected Oriented rather than a procedural approach to creating the application.