(Tanel Poder) Lots of production downtime can be eliminated by using prepared software stack for upgrading. That means, we take the software stack of the latest successfully completed test upgrade and will carry out production upgrade with the same software as well. That means we don’t have to apply
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J.D. Edwards Stays in Oracle Fold – for Now
(Kelly Shermach) Prior to Oracle’s announcement of its PeopleSoft integration road map, there were rumors that it would shed J.D. Edwards & Co., a business purchased by PeopleSoft in 2003.
DB2 Performance Expert for Multiplatforms V2
(Whei-Jen Chen, Alice Ma, Andy Markovic, Rakesh Midha, Marcia Miskimen, Ken Siders, Kevin Taylor and Maria Weinerth) DB2 Performance Expert (PE) for Multiplatforms V2 is a workstation-based performance analysis and tuning tool for managing a heterogeneous mix of DB2 systems with a single end-user in
Collecting Oracle Extended Trace (10046 event)
(Alexander Bubernak) The most importing thing in collecting trace data is collecting properly scoped data. You should know the application and user interaction. Collecting too little data can point you in the wrong direction. Collecting data in the middle of a performance problem or long wait wi
Tip: Look up XML schemata and Web services with these helpful resources
(Uche Ogbuji) It’s not always easy to find XML schemata and Web services that meet your exact needs. This tip shows you how to comb through the enormous variety of Internet resources to find schemata and Web services using common search criteria.
OASIS Approves ebXML Registry Version 3.0 Committee Draft for Public Review
The OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee has voted to approve its ebXML Registry Version 3.0 specification as a Committee Draft and to advance the draft for public review in preparation for ballot as an OASIS Standard.
Business Continuity: Is Your Data Management Strategy Keeping Pace?
(Mitch Landry) Three suggestions for thinking beyond simple backup and restore, to create processes that take a more sophisticated, business-focused approach to protecting database operations.
Weaving WebSphere: The Data Perspective
(Joe Pluta) In the past, I’ve often tried to explain the difference between data and information. It’s especially important these days as we see more and more tools designed to show data, usually in a browser. The difference is in how much business logic you can put into place: A person’s hire d
Object Orientation in Python
(Peyton McCullough) Python is a very object-oriented language, which makes it easy to work with. For those of you who may not be familiar with the concept of object-oriented programming languages, Peyton provides a complete, easy-to-understand explanation, and then gives a number of examples that il
Developing a Shopping Cart – Part 3
(Bipin Joshi) In the previous article we saw how to create a shopping cart using session variables. Continuing the concept further this article will illustrate how to use store your shopping cart in a database. This technique is more robust and scalable that the previous two techniques.