By Shawna McAlearney – A Los Angeles filmmaker’s lawsuit targeting Microsoft’s vulnerable software could signal a sea change for the software industry if judges and jurors decide that vendors should be legally responsible for damages caused by flaws in their products.
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IBM Updates Tools for DB2 Universal Database
By Lisa Vaas – IBM Tuesday put out four tools to help with the programming, data mining and replication monitoring of its DB2 Universal Database, company officials announced.
Oracle Technical Interview
By James Koopmann – Have you been thinking about switching jobs and are uncertain about that technical interview process? Try taking my technical interview and see if you are up it.
OASIS to tackle Web services deployment template
Members of the OASIS standards body plan to collaborate on the development of a “deployment template” for Web services that is vendor-neutral and spans a number of computing platforms.
Fetching Objects
by Claude Duguay – In this second of two installments, continue building an interface for containers that bundle XML documents for efficient delivery or logical clustering.
Datatype Checking With XSLT 2.0
by Bob DuCharme – There’s actually some good, even if ironic, news about data typing support in XSLT 2.0: if you’re still using DTDs, and you’re putting off a move to any schema format, you can use XSLT 2.0 stylesheets to add datatype checking to your system, further postponing a move to schemas.
See Trends of Fetches of Continued Rows
by Robert Ware – Just seeing the number of chained rows does not tell how they are affecting performance in a system. The statspack report contains the number of fetches of continued rows for the report period both aggregated and per second. The following script allows one to see at what times of da
Tool to load DB2 table from native DB2 image copy
SearchDatabase.com ASK THE EXPERTS :Is there a tool available that will load a DB2 table from a native DB2 image copy?(R)
Oracle Scales Out, Just Not Up, With Grid Plan
By Alan Zeichick – Grids, grids, grids, grids. Oracle Corp. could talk about little else at its annual OracleWorld conference, held here in mid-September. The event, which focused heavily on application development and database administration, served as the official announcement venue for the forthc
Does DASD striping work with DB2 for z/OS and OS/390?
Robert Catterall responds to: After discussions with IBM reps, my company decided to use it in some of our large flat files. IBM said it worked with VSAM and that it should work with DB2. I thought it would have a big benefit with the load and unload utilities and cursors that pull in large volumes