(Roger E. Sanders) I read your article regarding snapshot and event monitoring and am looking for more information. Once we take a snapshot, I see a lot of information. Where can I find documentation that will help me understand what it all means?
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A Dash Of Cinnamon
(Bernard Chester) IBM recently provided a taste of Project Cinnamon, an important component of the next release of DB2 Content Manager. The Cinnamon research project at IBM has produced a set of tools for easily linking XML data sources to DB2 Content Manager — an increasingly common requirement
From ADF UIX to JSF
(Jonas Jacobi) JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a component-based view framework. Some component-based framework implementations, including Tiles and Oracle’s Application Development Framework (ADF) UIX, are currently more mature, but JSF has gained popularity quickly and extensive tool support for JSF is
Extracting a String Within Delimeters – Part 2
(Stephen Lasham) I recently received correspondence from Denis Oliynik, IT manager at JSC ‘Rise’, Kiev in the Ukraine, who kindly provided me with a script improving on my previously published solution. Denis’s solution removes the CASE statement for handling where a second delimiting character is
Judge likely to extend Oracle/PeopleSoft case
(Julie MacIntosh) A Delaware judge on Wednesday said he likely would need to hear additional testimony before ruling on Oracle Corp.’s lawsuit to remove PeopleSoft Inc.’s poison pill anti-takeover measure.
.NET Integration with DB2 UDB for iSeries
(Jarek Miszczyk) Microsoft’s .NET Framework is gaining acceptance among solution developers who traditionally rely on Microsoft development tools. Some of these developers want to take advantage of the robust transaction support, tight security, reliable messaging, and workload and system management
Binary XML proponents stir the waters
(Michael S. Mimoso) XML loyalists put the old “strength in numbers” adage to the test last week at XML Conference & Exhibition 2004. There were dissidents in the nation’s capital, threatening to turn the XML standard on its ear. Proponents of binary XML, specifically the World Wide Web Consortium’s
Microsoft, Rivals Spar on XML
(Darryl K. Taft) The European Commission is caught in the middle of the latest standards battle between Microsoft Corp. and chief rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. This time it’s over XML.
Interview – Zack Urlocker of MySQL
(David Mytton) MySQL is commonly used by Web developers in conjunction with PHP. Although MySQL is not enabled by default in PHP5, a brand new class called MySQLi greatly enhances the functionality available to developers.
Escaping to the procedural world
(Philip Greenspun) Declarative languages can be very powerful and reliable, but sometimes it is easier to think about things procedurally. One way to do this is by using a procedural language in the database client. For example, with AOLserver we generally program in Tcl, a procedural language, and