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IBM DB2 Universal Database Continues Performance Record on Industry Leading Benchmarks
IBM announced breakthrough online transaction processing benchmark results for IBM’s DB2 Universal Database software running on the new IBM eServer p5-570.
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(Molly Holzschlag) Despite all the attention on Web standards in the past few years, there are ongoing problems with document conformance when it comes to HTML and XHTML.
Tools to tame XML content
(Ed Scannell and Cathleen Moore) IBM later this month will demonstrate Project Cinnamon, the company’s content management technology designed to ease document management and storage through XML tagging. Big Blue plans to ship a version of Project Cinnamon this fall, bundling it into DB2 Content
The db2relocatedb tool
(Kelly Schlamb) The db2relocatedb tool allows a DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX and Windows DBA to physically move the location of an entire database, or of one or more table space containers, without having to perform a backup and restore. This article will discuss the tool, explain when
The Secret Texts of DB2 Connect
(Leon Katsnelson and Paul C. Zikopoulos) This is the second installment in a two-part series. Here, we’ll continue to answer some of the most common DB2 Connect questions—we get a lot of them. Specifically, we’ll cover sizing and network monitoring (one of the most important aspects for DB2 Connect
The Economics of Web Service Development
(Marcia Gulesian) The financial consequences of your selection of software, hardware, and technology are often dwarfed by your decisions about the other component of every computer-based solution — that is, people. In order to have a fairly concrete discussion of the roles people occupy in soft
Oracle on Windows Part 3 – The Registry
(Steve Callan) In this third article about Oracle on Windows, we will take a look at the registry. Generally speaking, the registry is a database that stores information about the setup and configuration of a PC. If you are not a Windows administrator, and want to stay in the Oracle world, so to spe
Successfully installing Oracle Applications 11i on Windows 2000/NT, part 1
(Richard Stroupe) Oracle provides a utility, called RapidWiz, to automate the 11i Apps installation process. RapidWiz prompts the user for specific locations of prerequisite software, as well as the locations to install the underlying components used by the E-business suite. All three tiers are inst
Saving Images in a SQL database using ASP.Net
(poonam) The ability to display images in a web application is a common requirement. There are two ways you can do this, either store images in a SQL database using the Binary Large Object (commonly know as BLOB) data type, or store the image on the disk. There are pro’s and cons to each of these me