(Roger Miller) Many customers are asking the question, “When should I migrate to DB2 UDB for z/OS, Version 8?” I’ll identify situations where Version 8 (V8) is a great fit—or one of the greatest hits. After that I’ll dispel some myths.
Other News
Oracle Wins Bidding War For Retek, Beats SAP
Business software maker Oracle Corp. beat out German rival SAP AG in its bid to buy Retek Inc., reaching an agreement to purchase the retail software maker for about $670 million, Oracle said.
Table Variables In T-SQL
(Scott) Microsoft introduced table variables with SQL Server 2000 as an alternative to using temporary tables. In many cases a table variable can outperform a solution using a temporary table, although we will need to review the strengths and weaknesses of each in this article.
FIX: You receive an ‘ORA-01012’ error message when you connect to an Oracle database by using MSDAORA
You connect to an Oracle database by using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle (MSDAORA), and then you end the connection on the server side. When you open a new connection to the Oracle database from your application, you receive the following exception error message: System.Data.OleDb.OleD
Entrepreneurs turn to open source DBMS vendors
(Rob Westervelt) Like other entrepreneurs, Roger Holden knows that starting a business is risky. Part of that risk involves assembling the right IT infrastructure on a limited budget. (R)
Top DBMS Product More Than Just Pie in The Sky
(Michael Klaene) The selections for Developer.com’s Product of the Year 2005 have been made. Voters cast ballots for their favorite DBMS or Related Technology product and a winner has been selected.
Business Intelligence Set for Significant Growth in 2005
While working on our soon-to-be-published IT Spending Predictions Roundup for 2005, we at Analyst Views noticed that many analyst firms are predicting that business intelligence (BI) will be one of the hot areas for IT investment in 2005. In this issue we’ll look at analysts’ views of what BI re
MSSQL Server Reporting Services: Black Belt Administration: ‘Governor’ Capabilities: Report Execution Timeout
(William Pearson) In working with many reporting tools over my career, particularly within enterprise business intelligence suites and high-end production reporting systems, I have become acquainted with various control features in each that allow administrators to govern the actions of end users.
HOWTO: Add a Tag property to System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
(Paulo Morgado) First of all, we need to subclass the System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem class and declare all the constructors. Then add the desired public property (Tag) and a private field to support it (tag). Finally, we just need to override the methods needed to merge and clone menu items.
FIX: You receive a System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException when you call the Read method from an XmlTextReader class in ASP.NET
When you call the Read method from an XmlTextReader class by using the following code: String m_XmlDocument = “http://localhost/bug/file.xml”; XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader (m_XmlDocument); reader.Read(); you receive the following System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException error messag