(Jayanthi Suryanarayana and Neil Tunnicliffe) Availability and performance are primary considerations when you’re developing distributed applications. But using data stores to address these concerns can result in problems with data synchronization between heterogeneous data stores. In this artic
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Discovering Visual Basic .NET: Repeating Code
(Bill Hatfield) In the previous article in this series, “Discovering Visual Basic .NET: Making Decisions”, you found out how to make your programs smarter by letting them make their own decisions. In the this article, I’ll introduce the topic of looping and show you how to get your program to execut
Installing and Configuring SQL Server Reporting Services (Sample Chapter)
(William Vaughn and Peter Blackburn) This chapter details the installation and configuration of SQL Server reporting services, providing advice on testing and options for this useful function.
IBM DB2 UDB Fast Communication Manager
(Jamie Nisbet and Jack Ng) Using the partitioning feature of DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition? For peak performance, you’ll want to understand how to tune Fast Communication Manager, the DB2 UDB component that handles communication between partitions. This article explains how it wor
Oracle Real Application Clusters and Industry Trends in Cluster Parallelism and Availability
(James Hamilton) Shared disk cluster database management systems such as Oracle RAC are being discussed as a potential solution to the application scaling and robustness problem. This paper argues that the best solutions for availability have no single points of failure and support geo-clusterin
Testing is Key to Data Warehouse Success
(Mark Robinson) One of the greatest risks to success any company implementing a business intelligence system can make is rushing a data warehouse into service without testing it.
Wizards Creating Wizards
(Sergio Leunissen) When your application is collecting a lot of data on the Web in one session, it’s often helpful to break the data entry form into a series of pages forming a wizard. Such a data entry wizard is especially useful when you’re collecting many data elements or when the data collection
Top Ten Features of Enterprise Manager
(Dale Elizabeth Corey) More than once, I have heard, “I never knew that feature existed in Enterprise Manager”, so I thought I would conjure up a Top Ten List for Enterprise Manager. However, I will not say that there may be other features that are not as equally important and these are not necessa
Implementing Speech-Enabling Contact Center Applications
(Xiaole Song) So far, speech-enabling technology is starting to be utilized in contact center applications. VoiceXML and SALT (Speech Applications Language Tag) are both markup languages for implementing the speech interface as industry opens standards, allowing the developer to create a basic voice
Parallel ROLAP Data Cubes performance Comparison and Analysis
(Wei Shi, Qi Deng and Boyong Liang) The pre-computation of data cubes is critical to improving the response time of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems and can be instrumental in accelerating data mining tasks in large data warehouses. In order to meet the need for improved performance