(Darshan Singh) I am a "keyboard person"! Wherever possible, I prefer using keyboard and shortcut keys instead of mouse and menus. With SQL Server 2005, some shortcuts still work, but I am getting used to few new shortcuts!
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SQL Server 2000 Security – Part 9 – Replication Security
(Marcin Policht) The previous article of our series served as the introduction for discussion about replication security, which is the topic of this article. Last time, we discussed basic terminology, replication types and their agent-based operations. You should appreciate at this point, the level
Business processes in Service-Oriented Architectures
In this Webcast, we’ll look at the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), a high-level XML-based language that defines the logic and flow of a process in terms of existing services and applications. Creating and modifying a BPEL document is easy, especially with the BPEL editor and debugger in
The Next Generation: Q Replication
(Anthony J. Ciccone and Beth Hamel) Ten years ago, IBM first shipped DataPropagator Relational (DPROPR). Now, IBM is preparing new replication technology: Q Replication. DPROPR (now called DB2 Data Propagator), has been expanded over the years, and the resulting set of replication products has exper
Attend a Sunday DB2 pre-conference class and save
Get the most out of your conference experience by enrolling in a Sunday class at a significant discount. This is in addition to your conference fee. If you have an IBM Education Card or your company has a U.S. IBM Education Pack, you can use these money-saving programs towards the Sunday class fees.
Identifying Atom
(Mark Pilgrim) Atom is an emerging standard for XML workflow: web editing, web publishing (including syndication), and archiving. It has recently become the basis of an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group, co-chaired by Paul Hoffman and Tim Bray. (Yes, that Tim Bray). Since join
Oracle’s SPFILE – Part 1
(Amar Kumar Padhi) Oracle requires an initialization file to define the attributes and characteristics of the starting instance and the connecting sessions there of. We are aware of the Initialization parameter file (also referred as init.ora file or PFILE). This file holds the setup parameters that
For Loop Container Samples
(Darren Green) One of the new tasks in SQL Server 2005 is the For Loop Container. In this article we will demonstrate a few simple examples of how this works. Firstly it is worth mentioning that the For Loop Container follows the same logic as most other loop mechanism you may have come across, in t
Unique Identifier: Usage and Limitations
(Sharad Nandwani) GUID is a way to ensure uniqueness of the values. It finds use in various scenario’s. GUID is produced by using a combination of Time and Network Address so there is no chance of getting a duplicate GUID. Microsoft guarantees GUID’s to be unique for the next century. (R)
Asked and Answered – DB2 Stored Procedures
(Robert Catterall) An article I read gave me the impression that if you want to use one DB2 for z/OS stored procedure program for multiple different schemas in a database, the only feasible way to do this is to use WLM-managed stored procedure execution environments, because you can have several of