(Steven Warren) The Bulk Copy Program (BCP) is a command-line utility that ships with SQL Server 2000. With BCP, you can import and export large amounts of data in and out of SQL Server 2000 databases. Having BCP in your arsenal of DBA tools will add to your skill set and make you a better-rounded D
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StorageTek to Archive DB2 Data on Mainframes
(Clint Boulton) The concept of information lifecycle management (ILM) continues to get ringing endorsements from the storage sector’s top companies. The latest vendor to throw its support the ILM way is StorageTek (Quote, Chart), which plans to announce archive software geared to help administrators
Oracle Developer Days – Accelerate Development of Service Oriented Applications
Oracle Developer Days are free workshops that allow you to interact directly with the Oracle experts building the next generation of tools and technologies. These workshops will give you an insight into Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the latest Java and Web services technologies such as J2
DocBook Conversions with XFC
(Scott Nesbitt) DocBook XML is a popular way to create documents such as software manuals, reference guides, FAQs, technical articles and reports, and even non-technical books. On their own, DocBook XML files aren’t all that useful to their intended audience. To make them useful, you have to convert
Producing dynamic data-entry forms from DB2 tables for Delphi
(Bob Swart) This article examines IBM DB2 Universal Database metadata in order to dynamically build views and forms, including how to dynamically generate a new CLX form and stream the form as a Delphi .pas and .xfm file, ready to be added to Kylix and Delphi CLX projects .
XML Matters: Describe XML content with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
(David Mertz) The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is a standardized vocabulary for handling information about documents. In general, the DCMI vocabulary defines a hierarchy of terms that describe the purpose, context, and origin of a document (rather than describing the document itself).
Changing XML Schema attached in SQL Server 2005
(Vinod Kumar) XML has become an first class datatype in SQL Server 2005 . You can check my previous articles for an idea of XML features introduced. In this article we will take a look at how we can alter a XML Schema attached to an Typed XML data. XML’s can be caegorized into two categories, typed
Creating Custom Data Extensions for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
(Rod Paddock) SQL Server Reporting Services provides a comprehensive platform for creating, managing, securing, scheduling, and outputting data from SQL Server, Oracle, OLE DB and ODBC data sources. When Microsoft created SQL Server Reporting Services they created it as an extendable platform. You c
Decomposition, Process, Recomposition
(Uche Ogbuji) One unfortunate side-effect of the success of XML is that some users tend to just throw all their familiar data-processing tasks into XML shapes without pausing much to consider the strengths and weaknesses of XML.
Brewing Up Stronger Java Support
(Grant Hutchison and Kulvir Singh Bhogal) DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for Linux, Unix, and Windows version 8.2 supports many types of Java programs, including those used in client applications, in application servers, and in the DB2 UDB server itself in the form of stored procedures or user-defined