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Practical SQL: Archiving Data with SQL

SQL excels at set-at-a-time processing, and what better application than archiving your data?

joe_plutaWritten by Joe Pluta

No matter how much disk you have, you fill it. It's a corollary to Parkinson's Law, which posits that work expands to fill the time allotted. It's the same with databases; despite the ever-increasing amount of disk available (who could have imagined a 2TB disk for the home computer?), you will always run out, so at some point you will have to reduce the amount of data in your database. As it turns out, though, SQL can provide you with significant help.

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The API Corner: More on Purging Deleted Records Automatically

Find out the rest of the story about PRGDLTRCDS and Watch considerations.

bruce_viningBy Bruce Vining

This is the sixth in a series of articles on detecting that certain messages have been sent on your system and then making processing decisions based on those messages. The underlying technology, known as Watch support, became available with V5R4.

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The CL Corner: Determining What Program Is Being Tested

It's easy with the Retrieve Call Stack API.

bruce_viningBy Bruce Vining

In our last column, "More-Flexible Testing of Your CL Program Error-Handling," we left the SNDESCAPE program with the limitation of our having to hardcode the name of the program being tested: MONESCAPE. Today, we will look at how to dynamically determine the program that we want to send an escape message to. We will do this by using the Retrieve Call Stack (QWVRCSTK) API, which is documented here.

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Twitter Earns Its Stripes During Iranian Election Protests

Social networking services allow demonstrators to communicate with the outside world and each other.

chris_smithWritten by Chris Smith

When I was a boy, my father would send me postcards from Tehran, Iran, where he was on assignment from his Paris-based architectural firm. His company was under contract with an agency of the U.S. Government to design a new hospital for the citizens of Tehran. That was back in the 1950s under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the country's last U.S.-friendly leader.

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INDUSTRY NEWS >>

OCEAN User Group Extends Discount Rate for Coming Conference

Early discount registration for the OCEAN User Group Technical Conference July 20 has been extended through July 6.

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Quadrant Announces Release 5.4.3 of Formtastic

Joint development effort with Infor results in new PTF for ERP XA users. 

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Ovum Lauds Original Software's Agile Compatibility

Company solutions cited as better fit for agile processes than competing functional test automation suites.

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mrc Enhances m-Power with New Features

Additional functionality boosts developer efficiency when creating Web applications, company says.

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LANSA Reports Broad Acceptance of eLearning Initiative

24/7 on-demand education can increase technical skills while minimizing training expenses.

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TMW Systems Announces Carrier411 Integration for TruckMate and TMWSuite

Carrier411 offers fax, email and online information and alerts about motor carrier credential changes. 

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