(Ingo Rammer and Mario Szpuszta) In Chapters 11 and 12, I told you a lot about the various places in your remoting applications that can be extended by custom sinks and providers. What I didn’t tell you is why you’d want to change the default remoting behavior. (pdf)
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IBM’s new A-Z database strategy: Ascential, Apache & Zend
(Jan Stafford) The needle, or data, in the heterogeneous IT haystack will soon be easier to find for users of IBM’s DB2 database. Thanks to the very recent acquisition of Ascential Software, IBM is giving its database advanced query powers, according to Jeff Jones, director of strategy, IBM Informat
Simplify App Deployment with ClickOnce and Registration-Free COM
(Dave Templin) If you’re using Business Objects or UserControls written in Visual Basic 6.0 or Active Template Library (ATL), then you’re using COM. Prior to the Microsoft .NET Framework, COM was the principal component model that applications in Windows were built upon. But deploying applications w
Java theory and practice: Screen-scraping with XQuery
(Brian Goetz) XQuery is a W3C standard for extracting information from XML documents, currently spanning 14 working drafts. While the majority of interest in XQuery is centered around querying large bases of semi-structured document data, XQuery can be surprisingly effective for some much more munda
Administration Solutions for DB2 UDB for z/OS
(Paolo Bruni, Marcelo Antonelli, Sandino Bellini, Gerald Meixner, Carol So, Winston Tobias and Edward Woods) The purpose of this IBM Redbook is twofold: – Help you understand the mapping of functions to the DB2 Tools and alleviate the migration process to the relevant products – Point out the
XML Cutting Down Unstructured Data
(John K. Waters) We tend to think of data as either structured (the roughly 20 percent that fits neatly into the cells of a relational database) or unstructured (the audio, video, e-mail, and Word files that are usually referred to as content, and which constitute the remaining 80 percent). But than
MySQL 5.0 Views
(Trudy Pelzer) This book is for the long-time MySQL user who wants to know “what’s new” in version 5. The short answer is “stored procedures, triggers, views, and information schema”. The long answer is the MySQL 5.0 New Features series, and this book is the third in that series. (pdf)
What Are Microformats?
(Micah Dubinko) The phrase “XML world” paints an apt word picture, for on top of a bedrock specification lives a thriving ecosystem, inhabited by complex layers of specifications, products, and personalities, both individually and in consortia. Like any ecosystem, XML world is subject to Darwinian n
Oracle Forms in the SOA World
(Robin Zimmerman) Today’s enterprise is under pres-sure to interconnect its many disparate systems and applications. This pressure to integrate is a major driving force behind the adoption of Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) as an enterprise blueprint for reducing the cost and co
Tuning Federated Queries
(Howard Goldberg) Most DBAs know the tasks required to identify, measure, and implement changes that will improve a poorly performing SQL query. For federated queries, a DBA must learn new skills and broaden the typical query-tuning task list to deal with new functions provided by DB2 Information In