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I just came across the following two articles that have some good pointers for using the native XML capabilities of DB2: Using DB2 XQuery to extract data mining results stored as PMML: this article is a great introduction to XQuery and Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), a language to describe data mining models and to […]
DB2 Support for Data Migration When it is time to upgrade from DB2 on Intel to DB2 on Power for example, taking a backup/restore approach isn’t possible as DB2’s backups are platform dependent. The solution is to use a DB2 command called db2move. Basics of db2move db2move allows to export data from DB2 at different […]
Lotus Notes has four main functions: email, calendar, address book, and to-do. Of these functions, the address book is the only piece that is stored locally on whatever computer you added the entries. Thus, if you need to have access to your address book when you are at a different computer, or when you are […]
When I tried to run databases on OpenBSD, I encountered an issue running out of a resource that I didn’t quite understand at the time. I asked the following question on the [email protected] list: > I get the “/bsd: WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase NMBCLUSTERS” > messages “last message repeated 10 times” and then kernel […]
ExponentCMS is a popular web site management framework.  It has its own internal security system to protect against web site hacking.  As a result, on cPanel, which has its own system, the file uploads may not work.  Here is what to do when there are file upload issues: make sure suPHP is enabled in cPanel […]
These ideas are derived and quoted from “Best practices for tuning DB2 UDB v8.1 and its databases” CREATE INDEX has a number of options that allow for significant performance gains: Optimizing for SELECT: use PCTFREE 0 if index is on a read-only table. Optimizing for ascending or descending ordering: use ALLOW REVERSE SCANS to allow […]
A domain name is used as an easy way to locate you and your business on the Internet. Typically a domain name will look something like this: my-business.com.
Java Shopping Cart Hosting The need to host a shopping cart comes up on a regular basis. There are literally hundreds of very good solutions out there. Here is a list of carts that satisfy the following criteria: – configurable – customizable – embeddable – has a flexible API – compatible with IBM DB2 – […]
During an audit, we noticed that one of our Red Hat 5 / CentOS 5 servers wasn’t getting the security patches. Upon running the yum update command manually, we discovered that it fails with: Error: kernel conflicts with e2fsprogs < 1.37-4 The problem turned out to be the presence of a number if 32bit packages. […]