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Take The Fast Train

(Rahul Kitchlu and Boris Bialek) On January 30, IBM announced the availability of DB2 Express-C, a no-charge DB2 you can use for development or production. You can even redistribute it as part of your own application bundle, part of an educational curriculum, or just to friends and colleagues (pleas

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You may receive an ‘OLE DB provider ‘‘ supplied inconsistent metadata for a column’ error message when you issue an SQL query statement against a DB2 table in Host Integration Server

In Microsoft Host Integration Server, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following when you issue an SQL query statement: Server: Msg 7356,Level 16,State 1,Line 1 OLE DB provider ‘Provider Name’ supplied inconsistent metadata for a column. Metadata information was changed at

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Get off to a fast start with DB2 Viper

(C. M. Saracco) You’ve probably heard the buzz about DB2’s new Viper release — IBM’s first database management system to support both tabular (SQL-based) and hierarchical (XML-based) data structures. If you’re curious about DB2’s new “native” support for XML and want to get off to a fast start, you