(Chris Eaton) In my last posting on DB2 Viper compression, I compared the compression in DB2 vs. Oracle. This sparked some good discussion with some comments assuming that performance on Oracle would be better because of the guess that their poor compression would lead to less CPU overhead. I explai

(Stephen White) The purpose of this Redpaper is to provide guidance for the preparation of business process models, developed with the WebSphere Business Modeler, which will ultimately be monitored by the WebSphere Business Monitor. The model preparation, including business measure development, and

(Willie Favero) Good question and one that I think is of concern to almost everyone when they migrate to V8 (or any other version migration). I guess you always have the option to scream “Hey DB2 land, what’s wrong?” Of course, what would probably be a better approach would be to start checking out

(Mayank Pradhan) The annotated XML schema decomposition feature, introduced in DB2 Viper, can be used to decompose XML documents, wholly or partially, into relational tables. It uses annotations in XML Schema as the mapping language to map information in an XML document to relational tables. The

(Kim Moutsos) As a teenager working part-time hanging tapes, Susan Lawson couldn’t have imagined that her technology interests would eventually take her to Beijing and back, with many exotic stops in between.

(Craig Mullins) A null represents missing or unknown information at the column level. If a column “value” can be null, it can mean one of two things: the attribute is not applicable for certain occurrences of the entity, or the attribute applies to all entity occurrences, but the information may not

(Martin Keen, Andy Garratt, Ed Grossman, Dennis Stilhoff, Dan Zrobok and Sunita Chacko) IBM WebSphere Process Server, and the accompanying IBM WebSphere Integration Developer development tool, provide a vast array of powerful features for building business process solutions. But how can you use thos

(Jack Boswell) DB2 Content Manager Standard Edition Version 8.3 provides an entry-level content management solution for small and medium-sized businesses. It shares common code with the Enterprise Edition and provides a single, open, comprehensive, and consistent framework to manage, share, reuse, a

(Omer Brandis) All abap programers and most of the dba’s that support abap programmers , are familiar with the abap clause “for all entries”. Most of the web pages I visited recently, discuss 3 major drawbacks of the “for all entries” clause : 1. duplicate rows are automatically removed 2. i

(Sing Li) The combination of Eclipse, DB2 Express-C, and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition — all free to download, use, and deploy — is an excellent from-prototype-to-production suite for all of your Java and Java enterprise development needs. What might not be obvious is the relative