DB2 Students Group

MediaWiki is the wiki application that underlies Wikipedia and many other websites. It is written in PHP and licensed as open source under the GPL. Historically, it has run on MySQL, but it does have a sophisticated database abstraction layer that provides support for PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, and other databases.

Our main goals for this project are to:

• integrate DB2 support with the new MediaWiki installer being developed for the 1.17release;
• debug the core wiki functionality on DB2;
• implement search, possibly taking advantage of DB2’s Full Text Search features.

This project is being developed by André, César, Daniel and Diego.

A IBM acabou de anunciar uma nova versão do DB2

1. Imensas melhorias em termos de performance.
2. Melhor gestão automática da base de dados, menos necessidade de DBA.
3. Melhor compressão de XML (inlined).
4. Compressão de indexes e de documentos XML no XDA.
5. Suporte de XML em datawarehousing.
6. Suporte do tipo de dados XML em stored procedures.

É oficial! A noticia que os utilizadores de mac tanto esperaram ouvir, finalmente esta disponível o DB2 Express-C 9.5.2 para o Leopard!

Agora já não tens desculpas para não experimentares e dares o teu contributo!

Para fazer o download vai ao site do costume.

Já se encontra disponivel o DB2 Express-C 9.5.2 beta para Windows (32-bit).

Inclui a nova Text Search feature “WHERE CONTAINS(column, ‘monkey’)=1″, optima para web development.

Originally posted at:

• http://nunojob.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/
  mets-standard-with-ibm-db2-express-c-
  using-xforms-as-user-interface-and-ruby-on-rails-as-a-rest-web-services

We will post a xForms/METS/DB2 screen-cast in this website soon. To get you prepared for this I advice you to download this firefox plugin and read the following articles:

• Introduction to XForms [part2, part3]
• Use XForms to create your own Sudoku game [part2]
• XForms and Ruby on Rails at the Doctor’s Office (DB2)

In case you are looking for good examples you can visit this wikibook or better yet… Open your console, and create a directory in your home folder. Enter the folder and write this:

svn checkout http://xforms-examples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ xforms-examples-read-only

These are some great samples from Google Code. Believe me I’m saving you time with this advice. You won’t need to spend hours on badly executed examples from companies that are supposed to be building xForms implementations. Outch!?