(Jack Loftus) As developers, users and vendors settled in for LinuxWorld this week, IBM introduced a new service for ISVs called IBM eServer Application Server Advantage for Linux, also known as Chiphopper. (R)
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IDUG 2005 – North America
From the latest development news, to user-proven implementation tips, IDUG2005 — North America, May 22-26, 2005, Denver, promises technical presentations delivered by professionals with diverse backgrounds and experience. Participating in IDUG 2005 – North America, the premier educational forum
Oracle Redefines Strategy With Open Standards
(Ankush Sohoni and Sunil Kumar) Open and standards based architecture seems to be the new buzzword among IT managers today. Oracle, announced its support for this architecture in 2004, with the release of the Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (OASR2). Oracle India announced the imminent availa
W3C Announces Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability
The Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability is open to the public and there will be no participation fee. Interested participants should submit a position paper on a topic within scope for the workshop, with focus upon the requirements for the public representation and interchange of rules.
MSSQL Server 2000 Reporting Services : Black Belt Administration: Execution Log Performance and Audit Reports
(William Pearson) Our focus in this article will be an examination of some of the uses to which the new Execution Log database might be put. Our examination will consist of hands-on publication of the sample reports provided with Reporting Services as a “starter set;” and then go beyond that set
Introduction to the CLR Profiler
Peter Sollich shows how CLR Profiler, a tool focused on analyzing the allocation behavior of managed applications, lets you find out which objects live longer due to finalization, and how the behavior of the application changes when you call the Dispose() method.
FIX: A query may run slowly if the query contains a multi-table joins and one of the join is a view
After you upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 post-Service Pack 2 (SP2) or a later build including SQL Server 2000 SP3, a query may take a much longer time to run, even though the query runs in seconds in SQL Server 2000 SP2. This problem occurs if both the following conditions are true: • The
Bad Data and Buggy Code: Using Java’s Exceptions and Debugging Features (Sample Chapter)
(Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell) In a perfect world, users would never enter data in the wrong form, files they choose to open would always exist, and code would never have bugs. Alas, we don’t live in this perfect world. This chapter introduces the concepts of debugging and exception handling for w
The Big Picture: DB2 and Visual Studio .NET
(Abdul Al-Azzawe) Want an overview of the IBM DB2 Universal Database V8.2 Development Add-In and managed provider for the Microsoft .NET platform? Learn about the key new RAD features, DB2 database project, the rich scripting wizards, and the CLR stored procedures support that are tightly integrated
Design more cohesively with XML and XSLT
(Phillip Perkins) You may recall that in the early days of the Web, cohesiveness was implemented with server-side includes, which involved a great deal of laborious file management. Fortunately, as the Web matured, so did the tools used to create it. For instance, in .NET, you create Web controls to