(Lin Merritt, Bill Jouris, Mike Salsburg and Margaret Greenberg) From December 4 – 9, 2005 you can attend the conference with content in Orlando, Florida. For those of you who have yet started to work on budget approvals, now is the time to plan for the best return on your company’s education dollar
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IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Automate peer recovery for transactions and messages in WebSphere Application Server V6.0.x
(Li-Fang Lee and Kristi Peterson) Learn how to set up, verify, and troubleshoot an environment for peer recovery of transactions and messages using new high availability features in IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0.x, including the high availability manager, transaction high
PostgreSQL 8.1 targets data warehousing
(Ingrid Marson) PostgreSQL developers have made a number of performance improvements to the next version of the open source database to improve its data warehousing capabilities.
Parse XML and implement Web services like a pro with these 10 PEAR classes
The general acceptance of XML as a standard protocol has moved the concept of Web services from the realm of the theoretical to that of the practical. It is commonplace for Web sites being created or maintained today to have some sort of Web services, and by extension, XML component residing in it.
Oracle buys logistics software maker G-Log
(Stacy Cowley) Oracle has acquired Global Logistics Technologies Inc. (G-Log) for an undisclosed sum. The company plans to use G-Log’s logistics software to boost its supply-chain management technology offerings.
SQL Server Locks – Introduction
(Michael Balloni) Relational databases like Microsoft’s SQL Server use locks to prevent multiple users from making conflicting modifications to a set of data: when a set of data is locked by a user, no other users can modify that same set of data until the first user finishes modifying the data and
Achieving the Right Value Balance
(Gary Cokins) One of the most ambiguous terms in discussions about business and government is value. Everybody wants value in return for whatever they exchanged to get value. But whose value is more important and who is entitled to claim it? Customers conclude that they receive value if the bene
Writing Database Objects in CLR: Advanced Scenarios
(Sahil Malik) My previous article demonstrated how to write a simple table valued function (TVF) that accepts an integer and returns a table of results, breaking down the input of value into its factors. Thus, if you pass in 2, you get 1 and 2, but if you pass in 15, you get 1, 3, 5, and 15.
Instant AJAX: Applying AJAX to your existing Web Pages
(Argiris Kirtzidis) After all the fuss and the hype of AJAX technologies, there are plenty of solutions for AJAX around, for the developers to pick. The drawback is that you usually have to replace the standard ASP.NET controls, that your web pages are full of, with custom AJAX-enabled controls,
SAP and IBM Team to Deliver High-Performance Analytics Solution to Customers
SAP AG and IBM announced their intention to test and make available a low-cost, high-performance analytics packaged solution designed to make it easier for clients to gather, store and analyze critical business information. The solution will integrate the new high-performance analytics capabilit