(Jerry Hamilton) Be aware of the options available given your skills and experience. Are you an Informix Database Administrator seeing demishing job opportunities? Maybe it would help to learn another database platform like DB2, Oracle or SQL Server. If you’re an Analyst, who has reviewed a lot of c
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Working with SQL Server Date/Time Variables: Part Three – Searching for Particular Date Values and Ranges
Greg Larsen continues his series on date/time data with a discussion on Searching for Particular Date Values and Ranges. Learn how to select records from a database table based on values in a DATETIME, or SMALLDATETIME column.
Namespaces in an XML Document
Describes how the XmlNamespaceManager class is created and used whenever namespaces are needed, while holding the prefix and the namespace it represents.
Manage Sessions in Web Services
by Kevin Jones – Developers can manage session in a Web service in two accepted ways: They can rely on HTTP and use HTTP cookies, or they can use SOAP headers. Axis lets developers do both.
Boosting Query Performance: Multidimensional Clustering
If you like the performance benefits of clustered indexes but find their limitations frustrating, you’ll want to explore every facet of this new feature.
How to transfer DB2 data to a spreadsheet
Make reporting easy for your end users. Author Kulvir Bhogal describes a sample application that uses open source technology for transferring DB2 data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Save Those Procedure Texts
Article which shows you a simple way to save multiple versions of stored procedure texts.
Identifying Trends
By Itzik Ben-Gan – This article from SQL Server Magazine presents set-based solutions to identifying trends in sales data.
XML Features of Oracle 8i and 9i
Today, guest writer and database specialist Simon Hume chips in with an introduction to the XML features of the most recent Oracle database versions. Included are real-world examples and code.
IBM Preps DB2-Based Integration Software, New Dev Tools
By Barbara Darrow and Elizabeth Montalbano – Watch out for the IBM Software onslaught.The computer giant this week is launching products ranging from inexpensive e-mail to its long-expected DB2 Information Integrator middleware and a new fleet of Rational software tools.