(Michael S. Mimoso) Linux has a prominent role sustaining many if not most online businesses as a Web server. But as the operating system evolves, so does its responsibilities. (R)
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Handling Oracle Max Open Cursor Error when Fetching Multiple Rows in ADO.NET
(Vivek Shaurya) Generally while working with Microsoft technology, MS-SQL server comes out as a natural choice for the database. While it’s a fact that .net framework has extensive support for SQL server, when you work with other databases like oracle the situation might turn out to be a little more
The skew.org XML Tutorial
(Mike J. Brown) This is a crash course in some essential concepts for software developers who are reading and writing XML documents on a regular basis. It is oriented toward people with some sort of programming background. The intended audience should already understand some basic things like wh
Code Snippet: Getting SAX InputSource from a DOM Document
Sometimes you need a SAX InputSource from a DOM Document object. For example, if you are using SAX parser to map XML to Java objects, but your source is a DOM Document object. Here is a solution found by software engineer Albert Yu, in which the only problem is that it throws a RuntimeException
BUG: Schema Calls to DB2 on OS/400 V4R4 Cause 100% CPU Spin
When calls to retrieve schema information from DB2 on the OS/400 V4R4 are issued with IDBSchemaRowset using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 or with SQLTables using the Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2, 100 percent CPU utilization occurs for that process.
IBM Offers Developers Easy Access to Its Linux Offerings
IBM is offering at no charge to mail its Linux Software Evaluation Kit DVD set to those who wish to obtain the latest of its middleware that has been ported to Linux – including WebSphere Studio application Developer v5.1.2, DB2 Universal Database v8.1.6, Tivoli Access Manager v5.1, and Tivoli Direc
Improving DB2 recovery performance
(Barrie Sosinsky) You can take a number of steps to reduce the time it takes to perform a restore operation. First, you should optimize the use of your buffers. Make sure that the restore buffer is a multiple of the buffer that was used during your backup, and that that buffer is a multiple of the e
Developing Faces
(Chris Schalk) Building enterprise J2EE Web applications has always been a bit of an art. Although J2EE provides more-than-adequate foundational technologies for building scalable enterprise Web applications, it previously lacked a high-level API to glue these technologies together and provide a sin
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
How to Identify Non-Active SQL Server Indexes
(Luis Martin) As a DBA, it is our regular task to review our databases and see if there is any way we can boost their performance. While adding new or better indexes to a database is one of the primary ways we can boost performance, an often forgotten way to help boost database performance is to rem