(Bob Swart) This article demonstrates how to build the user interface (a thin-client application) for a SOAP Web service engine with Kylix 3 on Linux, exposing the data from DB2 UDB database tables to the outside world.
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How To Populate a TreeView Control with XML Data in Visual Basic .NET
This step-by step article describes how to populate a TreeView control by using Extensible Markup Language (XML) data in Visual Basic .NET. Because both XML and the TreeView control represent the data in a hierarchical format, the TreeView control is a natural choice to display XML data. The Tre
Ontology Tools Survey, Revisited
(Michael Denny) Ontologies are a way of specifying the structure of domain knowledge in a formal logic designed for machine processing. The effect on information technology (IT) is to shift the burden of capturing the meaning of data content from the procedural operations of algorithms and rules to
SQL Server 2000 Security – Part 7 – Statement and Object Permissions
(Marcin Policht) SQL Server 2000 offers a number of security mechanisms that impose predefined levels of control over database objects and operations. We have discussed the most common of them, such as server and database roles, in the previous articles of this series. While they are convenient
Insert Speed and Select Query Performance, Too
(Brian Moran) I have two tables, Account and AccountTransaction, that have more than 20 million records each. There’s a one-to-many (1:M) relationship between Account and AccountTransaction. Data Transformation Services (DTS) constantly loads new records into the tables by using a text file. My comp
Announcement: IBM Unveils Software to Help Businesses Better Manage Product Information
IBM announced new software to help businesses better manage and gain control over product information and to enable increasingly popular initiatives such as radio frequency identification (RFID), global data synchronization, electronic commerce and portals. Approximately 90 days after acquiring
IBM DB2 UDB versus Oracle backup and recovery
(Allan W. Tham) A backup and recovery strategy is essential to prevent data loss, regardless of your database management system. Designed for the DBA who may be coming to IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) with Oracle skills, this article explains how backup and restore functions work on DB2 UDB f
Hierarchical XML – importing into SQL Server
(Tim Walters) Loading XML into a SQL Server 2000 database is now rather easy thanks to the inbuilt XML features (such as OPENXML) and the freely downloadable SQLXML add-on. It becomes a little more complicated when loading in a hierarchy unless you have some way to uniquely identify each element,
XML programming in Java technology, Part 2
(Doug Tidwell) In an earlier tutorial, Doug Tidwell looked at the basics of XML parsing in the Java language. He covered the major APIs (DOM, SAX, and JDOM), and went through a number of examples that demonstrated the basic tasks common to most XML applications. In this tutorial, he looks at more di
Deploying IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand in a HACMP environment
(Kevin Van Winkle) This article describes the steps needed to configure IBM® DB2® Content Manager OnDemand to run under a HACMP environment. It assumes familiarity with HACMP concepts and terms, and that the hardware involved is set up to support HACMP. Because there are such a large number of possi