Securing private information and keeping financial data accurate should be top
of mind for all organizations. This set of data governance best practices holds
true for every data server environment.
IBM's ambitious vision for its IBM Data Studio suite, which works with DB2 and Informix today and other vendors' platforms in the future, will change the way data is handled from creation through destruction.
Andrew Ford's Informix Tips
The latest blogger to join the IBM Database Magazine roster offers tips, tricks, and observations drawn from his experiences as a DBA who "frequently puts on the software developer, system administrator, database architect and storage administrator hats." His first post includes python script to test what kinds of load your Informix database servers can handle.
Visa: Large scale data warehousing with compression and partitioning
What do you use when you have 400 terabytes of data, 2,000 tables, thousands of
users and complex processing? Ellen Reys, Chief Database Architect of
Visa/Inovant knows the answer: Use DB2 9 with table partitioning and
compression.
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SOA for the Business Developer: Concepts, BPEL, and SCA
by Ben Margolis
The latest entry in a host of books about service-oriented architecture (SOA) explains the benefits of organizing software with SOA as well as the underlying technologies SOA relies on, including: XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL, Service Component Architecture (SCA), and Service Data Objects (SDO). Business examples and figures illustrate the explanations.
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