I was recently trying to clear out an entire table within a DB2 database, actually the CACHEIVL table within my local WebSphere Commerce toolkit instance containing roughly 9,000,000+ records, and I wanted to simply remove the data. I was attempting to run a TRUNCATE statement; however, that kept failing miserably, and realized that there was another way to truncate a table, without having to run a TRUNCATE statement.
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I work with the Spring framework on a daily basis, and the one thing that always bothers me is when projects and people fail to adequately split and maintain their application context files. I’ve work with projects that put all of their Spring beans into the same file with no actual format or structure. That causes a significant nightmare when attempting to maintain, update, or add functionality on top of those files.
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I recently have come across the need to delete millions of rows from a variety of tables within my WebSphere Commerce instance, but have been unable to as the transaction log fills all the way up and the transaction errors out. Granted, there are several options that I could have taken such as to increase the transaction log size; however, that isn’t always feasible depending upon the environment you are working with.
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For those that use WebSphere Commerce, especially if you’re taking advantage of internationalization and localization, you’ve used many a resource bundles. You also understand how challenging it can be when you have to consistently modify your properties, only to have to restart your application server in order to view the updates. Here is a solution that will allow you to change your property files, and refresh them automatically without restarting your application server.
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I was recently writing some DB2 SQL queries, and was seeing some DB2 error codes returned when attempting to run those queries. Typically I lookup the error codes on the DB2 InfoCenter; however, I recently just discovered a significantly quicker way to determine what the cryptic DB2 error codes are trying to say without using InfoCenter.
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