(Robert Catterall) When my youngest child – now 8 years old – was younger still, I would read her a story at bedtime. One of her favorites was “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse,” by Kevin Henkes. Lilly was enthralled by her teacher, Mr. Slinger, and expressed her admiration for him pithily: “‘Wow,’ said

(Bhargavkumar Thakker and Soumitra Limaye) The IBM Lotus Web Content Management (hereafter called “Web Content Management”) API provides an extension of standard features of Web Content Management. This article provides usage and solutions with code samples of the most common implementations carried

(Willie Favero) Testing for RSU0909 is now complete. It contains all service through the end of June 2009 not already marked RSU along with PE resolution or HIPER/Security/Integrity/Pervasive PTFs and their associated requisites and supersedes through August 2009.

This CA-sponsored white paper, authored by industry expert Sheryl M. Larsen, founder of Sheryl M. Larsen, Inc., discusses how well-designed and maintained data access paths can improve application and database performance. (R)

(Craig Mullins) Most DBAs have grappled with the pros and cons of choosing one data type versus another. Sometimes the decision is easy, whereas sometimes the decision is a little bit more difficult. In today’s blog entry, we’ll discuss both situations.

(Willie Favero) While reading the back of the shampoo bottle, I realized that the instruction ask me to wash my hair forever. There seems to be no exit to the loop. Shouldn’t actually be “Wash, Rinse, Repeat until Clean”? And before I start to get e-mail, I guessing that’s not the actually the instr

(Mary Desisto, Susan Malaika, Donna Slattery and Andy Smith) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that, in the United States, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes increased from 5.8 million in 1980 to 15.8 million in 2005; and as of 2009, 23.6 million people have di

(Mike Bracey) DB2 buffer pools are a key resource for ensuring good performance. This is becoming increasingly important as the difference between processor speed and disk response time for a random access I/O widens in each new generation of processor. A System z processor can be configured with la

(Conor O’Mahony) Today, IBM announced DB2 pureScale. I thought I’d take a few moments to tell you about DB2 pureScale. The first thing you should be aware of is that DB2 pureScale is the culmination of a multiple-year collaboration between the IBM DB2 and IBM Power Systems teams. Some people may ini

(Kevin Haverlock, Peter Tuton and Grant Murphy) An exciting feature of an Ajax architecture is the ability to aggregate content from multiple data sources to create an entirely new and innovative site or Web application. As an example, you might create a Web application that combines information on