(Rajesh Sumra and R. Venkatvaradan) The lifecycle of any application typically involves four phases—requirements, design, development, and testing. Testing is the phase that guarantees value delivery to the customer. Testing, being an important process in the SDLC, is an area where better and effici
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Developing DB2 Applications: THE PLATFORM CHOICE IS YOURS (e-book)
When it comes to application development, Java junkies and .Net devotees may never see eye to eye. If they’re developing for DB2, they don’t have to. DB2 UDB v.8.2 shipped earlier this year with something for every developer, regardless of platform preference. This must-read e-book highlights the la
Oracle adds members to grid alliance
(Robert Westervelt) Oracle Corp.’s Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) has added three new members to its ranks, including its first end user, adding clout to its effort to produce user-friendly tools and grid computing standards. (R)
Use Cascading Stylesheets to display XML
(Uche Ogbuji) Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) are well known as the most standards-compliant means of manipulating the look of HTML Web pages. They also happen to be the most practical way of displaying XML in browsers. Browsers have included support for CSS applied to XML much longer than XSLT, and the
Generic Data Comparison
(Leo Peysakhovich) One of the problems frequently faced by the DBAs or database developers is data comparison. Specifically, data residing in separate databases. The company I am working for has 2 types of databases: Access and SQL Server. Very often I need to compare data in different tables in dif
Gartner: Big Blue tops Linux market
(Jack Loftus) Fresh off recent news of a survey touting the success of Linux-based servers, IBM received more good news this week as new research ranks Big Blue No. 1 in Linux and blade server revenue. (R)
Easy Package Configuration
(Jamie Thomson) One of the age old problems in DTS is moving packages between your development, test and production environments. Typically a series of manual edits needs to be done to all the packages to make sure that all the connection objects are pointing to the correct physical servers. Thi
Save Query Output in SQL Server
(Vinod Kumar) There are requirements in various forums that you would like to save the output of the query. There are a number of solutions given. In this code snippet I will give you a method to use this from a script point of view. For the given task I create a generic proc that will facilitate in
Use the ‘Service Locator’ Design Pattern with the J2EE Architechture
(Mouli Chandra) This tip is an extension of a Design Pattern called “Service Locator” for the J2EE Architechture. Generally, the “Service Locator” pattern returns a Home object by merely accepting a string, usually a mapping for a JNDI name.
Regular Expression Sample Application – DNA Analysis
Regular expressions represent a powerful tool for describing and manipulating text data. These are supported by a wide variety of programming and scripting languages, text editors, and now by Oracle Database 10g SQL and PL/SQL. Regular expressions are extremely useful, because they allow programm