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Tips for Installing Fix Pack 3 on DB2 UDB V8.1 for Windows
By Paul Zikopoulos – Installing Fix Pack 3 for DB2 UDB on a Windows server that has multiple DB2 products installed? Here are some important tips.
Stepping Up BI Expectations
by Neil Raden – A jumbled array of disjointed analytic, reporting, and alert tools exists in most enterprises, unconnected to a unifying enterprise BI architecture. The situation has to, and will, change.
BMC Software® Expands Data Management offerings for Sybase and SQL Server Databases
BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE: BMC), a leading provider of enterprise management, announced new SmartDBA data management solutions for Sybase and SQL Server databases. With the addition of SmartDBA Performance Monitoring Solutions for Sybase and SQL Server, BMC Software is providing DBAs with a single co
Running a DTS Job on a Second Computer
My high-dollar consultants can get a basic SQL Server 7.0 Data Transformation Services (DTS) job set up and working. But they claim they can run the job only from the computer they built the job on. They tell me that If they run the job on a different computer, all the saved settings have to be rese
Challenges Involved in Multimaster Replication
By Brian Keating – This document consists of two main sections. The first section provides a basic overview of the concepts of multimaster replication. The second section describes some very specific challenges that have been observed with multimaster replication, as well as solutions for those chal
Getting Hooked in Java IDEs
By Joe McKee – Whether it’s Oracle9i JDeveloper, JBuilder, NetBeans, Eclipse, or any of the number of integrated development environments (IDEs) out there, Java developers the world over know there isn’t one all-encompassing IDE that meets all Java needs. IDEs often get riddled with extensions and p
Managing Users Permissions on SQL Server
By Alexander Chigrik – Permissions are the rights to access the database objects. Permissions can be granted to a user or role to allow that user or role to perform operations such as selection, insertion or modification of data rows.
Security Experts Decry ‘Good’ Worm
By Dennis Fisher – Security experts are now tracking a new variant of the Blaster worm, only this one attempts to patch vulnerable systems. Known as Blaster.D, the worm acts much like the original Blaster in that it infects machines that haven’t yet been patched against the RPC DCOM vulnerabi
Add Trees in SQL Server
While SQL Server doesn’t provide native support for hierarchical data, it’s not that hard to add. R.L. Parker explains.