(Raj Muralidharan) Understand the steps needed to configure PeopleSoft applications that co-exist with a 64-bit IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) instance in a Linux or UNIX environment.
Other News
Programmatically check for canonicalization issues with ASP.NET
This article describes how to add more safeguards to an ASP.NET application to help protect against common canonicalization issues.
Client- and Server-side Solutions to Managing State in ASP.NET
(Jim Duffy) The sun is shining and I am sitting at a large, umbrella-covered picnic table overlooking a shimmering pond, my state right now is pretty relaxed. I have been fortunate enough to have spent the last few days at a cabin in the northern part of Maine. The birds are chirping, kids are playi
PeopleSoft technology could boost Oracle’s ailing apps biz
(Robert Westervelt) Oracle Corp.’s desire to snatch up rival PeopleSoft Inc. could give Oracle application users the attention they have been craving. (R)
Schematron 1.5: Looking Under the Hood
(Bob DuCharme) Whenever I explain to someone how the evolving ISO standard Schematron can help to address their particular XML data quality issues, I always enjoy the part when they ask, “What software do I need?” Chances are, they already have the necessary software installed: an XSLT processor.
10 Ways to Optimize SQL Server Full-text Indexing
(Hilary Cotter) Indexing performance has always been the Achilles’ heel of SQL Server’s full-text feature. Although the search performance itself is fast (very few customers complain about the search speed), users do complain (often loudly and frequently) about how slow the indexing process is–espec
DB2 ICE Deployment Guide
(Whei-Jen Chen) The IBM DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (DB2 ICE) for Linux is a completely integrated, high-performance and pre-tested solution that incorporates best-of-breed software, hardware and services. This book provides you the technical details of the DB2 ICE. We begin with a general
In SQL: Processing XML’S Complex Hierarchical Structures
(Michael M. David) In Part 1 of last issue’s article entitled In SQL: Using XML to Link Below the Root I described how ANSI SQL can transparently integrate native XML, and do it at a full hierarchical level that utilizes the hierarchical semantics in the data. This inherent hierarchical SQL process
Automatic Reindexing
(Derek Wilson) Performing routine database maintenance such as reindexing is important for keeping your databases running at peak performance. When you use INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements to modify table data, indexes can become fragmented. Index fragmentation can happen when the logical s
DB Change Management – An Automated Approach – Part 2
(Darren Fuller) Part 1 of this series discussed the need for database change management and problems with current approaches e.g. the manual creation of upgrade scripts, which is inefficient and error prone. This second article of a 4 part series examines an automated approach to database change ma