December 21, 2016
December 21, 2016 | Volume 15 Issue 24
• LEAD ARTICLE: Gifts to Give Yourself This Holiday
• FEATURED ARTICLE: SQL 101: Tools of the Trade - i Navigator’s Run SQL Scripts
• NEWS HIGHLIGHT: New Bluemix Services with GitHub and Slack Integration
• WHITE PAPER: IBM i Security: Event Logging & Active Monitoring
• EVENT: Happy Holidays!
Gifts to Give Yourself This Holiday
It’s the holiday season, and everyone is in the gift-giving mood. Be sure you don’t forget to invest in your company and career.
Written by Brian May
It’s a special time of the year. Family gatherings for the holidays, football season, and time in the woods all make this one of my favorite seasons. The month of December is also unique for IT departments. December is certainly not business as usual for most of us.
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SQL 101: Tools of the Trade - i Navigator’s Run SQL Scripts
A more “modern” alternative to STRSQL, discussed in the last two articles, is the i Navigator’s Run SQL Scripts tool. Let’s explore it together, shall we?
Written by Rafael Victória-Pereira
While STRSQL is a green-screen tool, Run SQL Scripts is part of the i Navigator package. You can access it by choosing the Run SQL Scripts option, either from the bottom-right pane of the i Navigator window after you’ve chosen the Databases tree node from the right panel, as shown in Figure 1, or by right-clicking the database name and choosing the respective option.
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