Paul Zikopoulos

In my latest articles, I’ve been writing about the IBM Rational Data Architect (Rational DA) integrated development environment (IDE) that’s specifically designed for those involved in data server design and schema evolution. So far, I’ve shown you how to add a database connection, which becomes the basis from which all of your work is directed. […]

In my latest articles, I’ve been writing about the IBM Rational Data Architect (Rational DA) integrated development environment (IDE), a tool that’s specifically designed for those involved in data server design and schema evolution. So far, I’ve shown you how to add a database connection, which becomes the basis from which all of your work […]

In an article called “Rational Data Architect and DB2 9: Building an SQL Statement”, I introduced you to the IBM Rational Database Architect (Rational DA) product and its SQL builder feature. Specifically, I showed you how easy it is to build an SQL statement using the Rational DA toolset. If you’ve read that article, you […]

In an article called “Rational Data Architect and DB2 9: The Database Explorer,” I introduced you to the IBM Rational Database Architect (Rational DA) Database Explorer view and showed you how to add database connections to it. If you’re not familiar with that process, or you didn’t read that article, it would be helpful to […]

In a previous series of articles, I’ve written about the tight integration of the IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows data server and its impressive integration with some of the world’s most popular integrated development environments (IDEs) such as IBM Rational Application Developer and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. One area I’ve not covered […]

Since the middle of 2006, I’ve been writing about all the great integration features in IBM DB2 9 for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) and the accompanying ADO.NET 2.0 API. In an article called Building Tables with the DB2 Table Designer and Visual Studio 2005 I showed you how to build […]

Since the middle of 2006, I’ve been writing about all the great integration features in IBM DB2 9 for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) and the accompanying ADO.NET 2.0 API. In an article called Binding DB2 Data to Visual Studio 2005 Windows Applications, I showed you how to quickly build a […]

In Part A of this series I showed you how to use Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 with data that resides on an IBM DB2 9 data server. That article concluded with a reporting object in a designer (which also needed formatting). In this article, I’ll show you how to format those default columns […]

In this article, I want to show you how you can create a very slick cross tab report using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 to generate a report from an IBM DB2 9 data server. Note: To perform the steps in this article, you need the DB2 9 SAMPLE database and the pureXML feature […]

In a previous series of articles, I showed you the integration features between the IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Version 8.x (DB2 UDB) product and the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 integrated development environment (IDE). In early June 2006, IBM announced the next release of the DB2 UDB product, DB2 9. Part […]

In a previous series of articles, I showed you the integration features between the IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Version 8.x (DB2 UDB) product and the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 integrated development environment (IDE). In early June 2006, IBM announced the next release of the DB2 UDB product, DB2 9. Part […]

In a previous series of articles, I showed you the integration features between the IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Version 8.x (DB2 UDB) product and the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 integrated development environment (IDE). In early June 2006, IBM announced the next release of the DB2 product, DB2 9. Part of […]