(Joe Pluta) Remember when the biggest problems of database design were how to convert internally described files to externally described files and how to pack dates into the smallest possible space? Yeah, that last one bit us, but back in the ’70s and ’80s, who knew? We didn’t worry about Y2K; we wo

(Matt Whipp) IBM is putting its weight behind the popular PHP scripting language with a new educational suite and development environment.

(Stewart Nickolas and John Steinbacher) The Zend Core for IBM provides a seamless out-of-the-box PHP development and production environment, supported by Zend and integrated with IBM’s Cloudscape and DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) database programs. The product includes native support for XML and

(Susan Sloan) When you design any sort of database, you need to answer many different questions. How will you organize your DB2 data? How will you create relationships between tables? How should you define the columns in your tables? What kind of table space should you use? In this sample chapter, y

(Stanley Bradbury) IBM Cloudscape is a small-footprint, multiuser, standards-driven, relational database system written entirely in Java™ that is well suited for embedding in Java applications and servers. This technical article answers common questions.

(Howard Goldberg) At the core of every IT project is data. In most cases, that data is stored on heterogeneous platforms, in various formats, and in multiple data stores. To resolve the integration challenges that result, application projects typically create a single consolidated data store by

The company is today expected to announce integration between Zend Technologies’ PHP programming environment and IBM’s Cloudscape database, open sourced last year as Project Derby.

(Sasirekha Cota) Every now and then, mainframe designers face the question of why DB2 and why not VSAM? This article aims at answering this query and provides sufficient information that enables the designer to make the right decision. (R)

(Martin LaMonica) By the end of the year, Big Blue intends to release an update to its corporate information-management tools, which are designed to bring order to potentially thousands of data sources in a company’s network.

(John Leyden) Computing techniques used to identify cheaters in Las Vegas are being applied to wider computer security and fraud detection problems. SRD, a Las Vegas software developer which was acquired by IBM last month, is taking its identity resolution software from the gaming tables into corpor