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Taming the Wild West, Part 2

(Michael Dougherty) Part 1 of this series explained how corporate portals and intranet sites sprang up in a fairly lawless environment. Corporate overseers rode into town in the late 1990s, but governed mostly at the local (departmental) level. Today, Web content management (WCM) systems provide

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Taming DB2 Performance Issues

(Craig S. Mullins) One of the biggest problems faced by companies today is keeping applications running at peak efficiency. It can be a never-ending task to diligently keep collecting, examining, and reacting to performance-oriented statistics. This is certainly the case for DBAs charged with mainta

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Exception handling

(Paul Yip, Drew Bradstock and Hana Curtis) Anticipating and handling conditions is part and parcel of good, robust programming style. With DB2 SQL procedures, this is accomplished through the use of condition handlers. In fact, it is also desirable to be able to check for and act on warnings that ma