(Nagraj Alur) This redbook provides an overview of DB2 Information Integrator key performance drivers, best practices to achieve optimal performance, and guidelines on monitoring a DB2 Information Integrator environment for capacity planning and problem diagnosis and resolution. (pdf)
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.NET XML Best Practices: Writing XML Documents
(Aaron Skonnard) In the first part of this series, Choosing an XML API, I covered the numerous XML-related classes in .NET for reading and writing XML documents and discussed the characteristics of each. In the second part of this series, Reading XML Documents, I walked you through several practical
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to DB2
(Craig S. Mullins) DB2 is a complex piece of system software that can be very intimidating for users to learn and master. There are a lot of details, parameter, syntax choices, and manuals that need to be understood. Difficulties can arise for a number of different reasons. This hitchhiker’s gui
An introduction to using the ADO.NET – SqlCommand Object
(Jon Winer) Are you familiar with using the Command object in ADO? If so, migrating to ADO.NET shouldn’t be as much of a headache as you might think. Here I discuss a couple of the methods available using ADO.NET’s SqlDataReader and SqlCommand objects that map well to coding practices commonly utili
RDF Triples in XML
(Jeremy J. Carroll and Patrick Stickler) It is well known that RDF/XML presents problems. A cursory search with Google reveals half-a-dozen suggestions for alternative XML syntaxes for RDF. This paper presents another, which is called TriX. Distinctively we select the simplicity of N-triples
WS-Security Protocol with .NET – A Overview
(Mahesha Channabasappa) WS-Security is a security mechanism for web services coined by IBM, Microsoft and VeriSign. WS-Security introduces the concept of security tokens. These XML-based tokens contain claims about the sender of a SOAP message, and can include data sufficient to prove these claims.
Network Address and Network Port for AS/400 Connections
This articles explains how to determine the Network Address and Network Port number for the following data providers with an AS/400 over TCP/IP: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for AS/400 and VSAMMicrosoft OLE DB Provider for DB2Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2.
Discover the flexibility of Schematron abstract patterns
(Uche Ogbuji) If you have the basics of an XML format in mind, but know that you will not be able to get everyone at the table to agree to every detail of the schema, consider Schematron abstract patterns. Schematron is probably the most powerful XML schema language available (and it can be much mor
Structured Exception Handling in Visual Studio .NET
(Peter G. Aitken) For programmers, exceptions—that’s just a fancy name for run-time errors—are a fact of life. Good programming practices can minimize exceptions, but it is impossible to prevent them altogether. Many of the causes, such as network errors or incorrectly set file permissions, are beyo
Communicating with the Database (Using ADO)
(Chaudhary Pradeep K. Roy) ADO provides developers with a powerful, logical object model for programmatically accessing, editing, and updating data from a wide variety of data sources. Its primary benefits are ease of use, high speed, low memory overhead, and a small disk footprint.