To model a relational structure in a hierarchical form, some workarounds have to be used to handle situations that are too complex to be modeled directly in a parent-child hierarchy. Thus the first step is to decide what the document's root element should be. more>

Learn to develop Spring applications that you can use with IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition, a free, lightweight Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server. With this tutorial, you'll get familiar with database connection management options available to you while developing Spring applications, and learn how to use an open source connection pool implementation more>

Building multi-threading into .NET* applications is a powerful tool for the developer. It empowers applications that demand high scalability, such as enterprise applications, as well as desktop applications that need to process more than one task at the same time. more>

Large retailers operate in an extremely challenging environment: margins continually shrink, competition is increasing, and customer expectations are expanding. Multiple new technologies will clearly change the industry significantly. But determining which technologies are key, and how to deploy them cost effectively, is a major challenge. more>

This technical briefing provides a technical, practical overview of SOA connectivity, including the benefits and importance of an enterprise service bus (ESB) in creating and maintaining a flexible IT infrastructure. more>

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Download a free trial version of IBM DB2 Universal Database™ Enterprise Server Edition. DB2 UDB is designed to meet the relational database server needs of mid- to large-size businesses. It can be deployed on Linux™, UNIX®, or Windows® servers of any size, from one CPU to hundreds of CPUs. more>

Rational UML Download: Check out the latest Rational Rose software (now called Rational Systems Developer) and see its powerful Eclipse integration with sophisticated plugins for your model-driven programming needs. If you need to write model-based software in Java/J2SE, C/C++, or CORBA, get the free Rational UML download (Rational Systems Developer) today. more>

Learn how Sun is solving the problems associated with accumulating massive amounts of fixed content storage such as medical records. more>

Incubated in Sun Labs, the Honeycomb storage solution introduces new dimensions of intelligence and programmability and improves application performance by taking on low-level data services such as query and metadata management. Honeycomb Senior Product Manager Mike Davis explains more>

With ever-increasing economic pressures, businesses are requiring their IT departments to deliver higher quality software faster and with smaller teams. These demands have driven software teams to turn to Agile development to align their goals with business objectives as well as making them accountable for the products they produce. Unfortunately there is often a disconnect between the developers dealing with data in their databases and the Database Administrators that must deliver on SLA (service level agreements) or software compliance initiatives. Join this IBM webcast to find out how developers can use Data Studios' IDE (integrated development environment) to deal with this division to improve their skills, become more efficient, and increase their benefit for their company.

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IBM Data Servers, solutions and tools to assist your project DBAs to be more effective. Download the Smart Data Administration e-lit from IBM and start benefiting from the resources provided to start getting control of your software data. The valuable e-kit resources include a variety articles, podcasts, and demos to get you started.

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This paper demonstrates that the Sun Fire T1000 server using Solaris Containers technology can be used as an effective Web-tier consolidation platform. The Solaris Containers technology enables multiple web server applications to each run in their own isolated application execution environment on a single server. Resource management tools included with the Solaris Operating System enable resources such as CPUs and memory to be easily allocated to each zone, monitored, and dynamically adjusted to meet changing performance requirements. Using a single operating system can help reduce complexity and grant easier system administration. more>

This IBM Certification Exam 735 tutorial will teach you about DB2 temporary tables, savepoints, ADMIN_CMD, and various advanced SQL functionality. This is part five in a six part tutorial series for preparing for the IBM Certification Exam 735 for DB2 9.5 SQL Procedure Developer. Start this free IBM tutorial for DB2 9.5. advanced SQL features.

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In this IBM Certification Exam 735 tutorial, we will teach you about the DB2 SQL Procedural Language including declaring conditions, variables, and handlers, iterative statements and flow of control, and error-handling strategies. This tutorial is part one in a six part tutorial series to assist in your preparation for the IBM Certification Exam 735 for DB2 9.5 SQL Procedure Developer. This part of the series focuses on Section 1 of the exam, titled “SQL Procedure Language”.

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This free IBM Certification Exam 735 tutorial introduces DB2 SQL procedures for version 9.5. We will go over the basics of stored procedures, the difference between external procedures and stored procedures, and the advantage of stored procedures. The tutorial will discuss different types of SQL procedure statements, and show how to share and invoke nested store procedures as well as how to test, deploy and secure SQL procedures. This is part two in a six part tutorial series to prepare you for the IBM Certification Exam 735 for DB2 9.5 Database Developer.

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With ever-increasing economic pressures, businesses are requiring their IT departments to deliver higher quality software faster and with smaller teams. These demands have driven software teams to turn to Agile development to align their goals with business objectives as well as making them accountable for the products they produce. Unfortunately there is often a disconnect between the developers dealing with data in their databases and the Database Administrators that must deliver on SLA (service level agreements) or software compliance initiatives. Join this IBM webcast to find out how developers can use Data Studios' IDE (integrated development environment) to deal with this division to improve their skills, become more efficient, and increase their benefit for their company.

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See how DB2 has transformed and become one of the most easy-to-use data servers around. You can virtually put your DB2 server on auto-pilot by using its business policy maintenance, built-in monitors, automated storage, lock visualization, and automatic parameter settings. We review favorite customer autonomic features for DB2 9 and discuss the new features for DB2 9.5 including a super slick Web management toolset.

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Imagine creating an application that needs access to your company’s central database but that server is bogged down with many other applications already. You might extract the data you need periodically but your application really needs current data. Perhaps, you can run your application on the primary system but this isn’t ideal either since you require higher availability than that would offer. This webcast will discuss your options for ensuring your application data is available when your application needs it.

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server consolidation:A growing number of companies are turning to server consolidation bringing together multiple applications, databases, and services onto fewer, highly reliable Intel processor-based servers. more on sql server consolidation more>

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's strategy of Adaptive IT is about using technology-driven strategies to deliver business value. One such strategy rests on Oracle's solution for server consolidation, which in turn is based on Oracle Real Application Clusters technology. More on oracle rac 10g and 9i more>

Information storage and retrieval lies at the heart of almost all core business solutions, from online portals to supply-chain management. It is therefore essential that IT organizations and solution providers keep pace with the rising volume and complexity of enterprise information. more>