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Indexed Views for ROLAP Partitions
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Hibernate 3 Adds XML-Relational Persistence
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Tivoli Data Warehouse Version 1.3: Planning and Implementation
(Vasfi Gucer, Wolfgang Bergbauer, Marcel Berkhout, Thomas Bodenheimer and Andre Mello) With IBM Tivoli Data Warehouse, you can analyze historical trends from various Tivoli and customer applications. The Tivoli Data Warehouse infrastructure enables a set of extract, transform, and load (ETL) u
Two-Way Data Binding in ASP.Net
(piers7) This article describes a two-way databinding scheme for ASP.Net, which extends the built-in simple databinding support to allow for automatic updates back to the original datasource(s). The intent was to support a scheme that – like the built-in simple databinding – required no support from
Is MySQL Gearing Up To Take On Oracle?
(Elizabeth Millard) With new features in the latest version of MySQL, like subqueries and a new binary format, the company has become a stronger competitor against much larger companies, and seems poised to bite into their revenues. Even more importantly, MySQL might actually spark some fundamental
Data Stewardship Framework – Part One
(David Marco) Data is one of the most important assets in a corporation. In order for data to have value is must be delivered quickly, properly formatted, be concise, accurate and most importantly, understood. The meta data repository has become the key enabling technology that has allowed corpora
Store IBM Workplace Web Content Management data in DB2 Content Manager for Multiplatforms
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SQL Server Integration Services: SQL Server 2005’s New ETL Platform
(Thiru Thangarathinam) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides a completely new enterprise extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) platform called SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) that ships with the features, tools, and functionality to build both classic and innovative kinds of ETL-based ap