This two-part tutorial assists developers in developing DB2 Everyplace mobile applications using J2ME APIs and deploying the application in the J2ME Emulator using the J2ME toolkit. Part two builds an address book application to access an address book record store, perform updates to it and then syn
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(Brian Moran) Performance tuning is my favorite topic and what I spend most of my professional time doing. I have a good sense of the performance-tuning techniques available, so it’s rare that I run across practical performance-tuning information that I’ve never seen or thought about before. However
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(Steve Callan) Beginning with later versions of Oracle8, Oracle has provided a means of generating random numbers. This built-in package, DBMS_RANDOM, is fairly simple to use, and can generate random numbers which are generally good enough for the needs of most users. If you need to generate a large
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(Jean-Luc David) Creating unified solutions has always been a challenge in the mobile space. Until recently the industry has been solidly divided: all mobile providers aggressively pushed their own proprietary platforms and languages. For example, Nokia and Openwave developed WML and WAP for consump
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(Roman Rehak) Regular maintenance is essential for the smooth, successful operation of your databases. This maintenance includes making backups to protect against data loss, performing consistency and integrity checks to ensure your data and indexes aren’t corrupted, and regularly rebuilding indexes
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(David A. Kelly) When Scott Klimke, CIO of Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp), a nearly US$1 billion supplier of storage solutions, says that his company’s IT philosophy is to keep it simple, that’s not because it hasn’t tried other options. “During the late 1990s, we were growing at 70 to 100 per
Fast XML Architecture
You can’t ignore XML anymore. But, how do you enable your developers to use this standard in an efficient and effective manner? The second Webinar in our series will focus on an XML processing architecture that preserves the modularity goals of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), while delivering
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(James Divine) The application shown here was my first adventure into Xml in the .Net platform. My goal was to be able to reflect any Xml file into the Windows Forms TreeView control. I found various examples online, but none I found were suited for opening all Xml files, rather they were suited to
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