As the demand to meet user and customer information requests continues to grow for today’s businesses, the use of DB2 Stored Procedures is on the rise. Are you prepared? Get to know the underlying basics and learn how to get started on your WLM implementation with your current version of DB2 today.
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Applied XML Developers Conference 5
The goal of the Applied XML Developer’s Conference is to cut away all the unessential conference baggage and concentrate on why we’re spending time at a conference in the first place — the talks by industry experts and experienced practitioners. By doing so, we can keep the price, and your wast
Oracle’s SPFILE – Part 2
(Amar Kumar Padhi) The first part of this series introduced the System Parameter file and its attributes. Below are some practical examples of working with the SPFILE.
JDeveloper 10g
(Alain Trottier) When vendors start charging more than $10,000 for a single tool, you know that the product category is about to heat up. Since Java IDEs have multiplied, I recently took Oracle JDeveloper 10g for a test drive – perhaps you didn’t realize this vendor had a serious Java IDE.
Render PDF applications using DB2 SQL/XML functions
(Naveen Balani) This tutorial shows developers how to render PDF applications using DB2 SQL/XML functions, WebSphere Studio Application Developer (Application Developer), and the Apache Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) project. (R)
A hands-on introduction to Schematron
(Uche Ogbuji) Meet Schematron, a schema language that allows you to directly express rules without creating a whole grammatical infrastructure. Schematron is useful whenever you wish to apply and check against rules for the contents of XML documents. Schematron is extraordinarily flexible in the
Fallacy and Lunacy
(Edd Dumbill) The W3C is a curious beast. While moral in the sense that it evangelizes open standards and accessibility, it is strangely amoral in its obedience to member vendor whim and its insistence on the one true path of W3C-blessed technologies. Both of the topics I tackle this week are re
Giving Legs to Web Services
(Caroline Kvitka) Interoperability is crucial for the adoption of Web services—and a key reason that the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) was created in February 2002. The WS-I’s goal is to deliver clear and consistent recommendations to ensure interoperability between Web services
Page Life Expectancy a Reliable Indicator of SQL Server Memory Pressure
(Brian Moran) Have you ever checked out the page life expectancy counter in Performance Monitor’s Buffer Manager object? SQL Server Books Online (BOL) says the page life expectancy value is the "number of seconds a page will stay in the buffer pool without references." So, a buffer that has a 300-se
SUM. — Calculate the total
The SUM. column function calculates the total of all values in a column for selected rows. It applies to a group of numbers and returns a single value for each group of numbers to which it is applied. You can use the UNQ. operator with SUM. to request that QMF use only unique values when calcula