(David Kline and Gabor Wieser) This article helps the new DB2 DBA understand the importance of table spaces and bufferpools, and explains how properly designing and tuning them can enhance database performance.
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Producing dynamic data-entry forms from DB2 tables on Linux
(Bob Swart) This article uses Kylix 3 on Linux and the Borland dbExpress data access drivers to analyze the DB2 UDB database tables, fields (names and types) to allow the user to select a specific table, toggle which fields should be shown, and dynamically view the output in both a datagrid and indi
Create a Robust Document Management System with Oracle Text
(Brian Carr) If you need a way to search through various documents with differing formats (PDF, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets)—including Web content—use Oracle Text. Oracle Text has a powerful text-search engine that allows users to search and manage documents and URLs
Inserting Custom Messages in Oracle Alert/Trace files
(Amar Kumar Padhi) A colleague of mine showed me a link on the OTN site regarding writing messages to alert log and trace files. I probed further and came across a couple of routines in the DBMS_SYSTEM package that allows us to insert our own customized messages in Alert log and/or trace files. I tr
Doing More With More
(Chris Fierros) DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for Linux, Unix, and Windows v.8.2 (initially known by its codename, “Stinger”) continues to deliver on IBM’s promise of self-configuring, self-optimizing, and self-managing database management capabilities. In fact, with more than 100 new and improved fe
XML programming in Java technology, Part 3
(Doug Tidwell) This advanced tutorial covers more sophisticated topics for manipulating XML documents with Java technology. The tutorial shows you how to do tasks such as generate XML data structures, manipulate those structures, and interface XML parsers with non-XML data sources. As you’d expect,
Analysis Services Comparison: SQL 2000 vs. SQL 2005
(Mark Frawley) Many SQL Server developers eagerly anticipate the long-awaited release of SQL Server 2005, formerly code-named “Yukon.” Major goals for Business Intelligence (BI) in the 2005 release are better integration of the somewhat loosely-coupled BI components of SQL Server 2000, provide enter
Introduction to MSSQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: Creating a Dynamic Default Member
(William Pearson) As most of us that work with MSAS are aware, dimensions as defined in Analysis Services contain many properties, one of which is the default member. The default member can have far-reaching effects from the perspective of information consumers, because they are often not even aware
Perform Without Waiting
(Arup Nanda) John, the DBA at Acme Bank, is on the phone with an irate user, Bill, who complains that his database session is hanging, a complaint not unfamiliar to most DBAs. What can John do to address Bill’s complaint? Acme Bank’s database is Oracle Database 10g, so John has many options. Aut
New Features for Web Service Developers in Beta 1 of the .NET Framework 2.0
(Elliot Rapp, Yasser Shohoud and Matt Tavis) Check out the new improvements in productivity, performance, extensibility, and standards support in Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.