(Clara Liu, Samuel Poon and Cindy Wong) This study pack is designed to help you to complete IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) v8.1 database administration certification. It contains the study materials and exercises to prepare you to pass both DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamentals exam (Test 700)
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Oracle CFO To Leave Company After 8-Month Stint
Oracle Chief Financial Officer Harry You is leaving the company after just eight months, creating a key void as the business software maker continues to digest its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft.
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(Yakov Shafranovich) With the increasing popularity of RSS and Atom, syndication is beginning to be used for many more innovative purposes than simply distributing website updates. In this article I want to show how to simplify such mundane tasks as tracking packages by converting tracking data into
Modifying Slony Clusters
(A. Elein Mustain) Replication clusters have much forethought applied to their creation. However, in the course of systems development, some changes are always necessary sooner or later. This article walks through the steps required to: –Add a node to the cluster. –Switch data providers of a
XSH: Interactively Manipulate and Analyze XML Data
(Wellie Chao) XML is a flexible language for storing hierarchical data along with its associated metadata. Storing XML data enables you to manipulate and analyze it later. When writing applications, you probably use some kind of XSLT engine (Cocoon, for example) in order to pick out pieces of data f
Real-World Value of XML and CMS – New Opportunities for Capco.com
(John Tunnicliffe) When it came to overhauling our corporate web-site, www.capco.com, we had a number of challenges to overcome. In particular, how could we get the right balance between the competing demands of design and technology?
Using Regular Expressions Groups to Isolate Sub-Matches
(Tom Archer) My most recent articles introduced several basic functions that you can perform with regular expressions, such as string splitting and using metacharacters for matching. However, before you can really get into the more powerful tasks that can be performed with regular expressions, y
MSMQ for .NET Developers (Part 1)
(Michael Jones) Microsoft .NET developers can use several tools to perform operations asynchronously; that is, beginning a process without waiting for the operation to complete. MSMQ has provided this facility to developers since its inception. It was especially useful for VB developers, because bef
Weekend With Indigo: Part 3 – Hard Core Messaging
(Clemens Vasters) Like with parts 1 and 2, I’ll stick with the “this isn’t RPC” theme for this 3rd part of this little series and will show how to flow free form XML from and to services. However, I will drop the “client”/”server” nomenclature from here on and will talk about endpoints. If you l
What are You Integrating?
(Al Moreno and Greg Mancuso) The word integration gets thrown around quite a bit in an IT shop. In today’s world, that term has begun to be used heavily by the business community as well. As everyone knows, when the business and IT groups start using the same word, they rarely tend to mean the same